A 1909 correspondence-school manual on textile design by Fenwick Umpleby of the Lowell Textile School. It runs from design paper, drafting and plain cloth through twills, sateens, rib and basket weaves, backed cloths, double and triple cloths, pile/plush, piqué, Jacquard designing, and gauze and leno. It closes with sections on textile coloring and on mill cost finding. The book has many weave plans and drafts, practice exercises, and loom illustrations.