Baldwin's Textile Designer, Vol. 1, No. 7 (July 1888)
July 1888 issue (Vol. 1, No. 7) of Baldwin's Textile Designer, a monthly trade journal published by A. A. Baldwin at Brasher Falls, N.Y., covering designing, weaving, carding, spinning, dyeing and finishing. It includes articles on the finishing room (burling), hair-cloth manufacture, carding engines and their clothing, fibres such as hemp and jute, New England factory life, coloring and blending of fibres, and soaps. Weaving content includes the winners of a weave contest (weaves No. 1-88 shown as drawdowns) and the 'Latest Novelties' section with patterns 92-104 for fancy woolen and worsted suitings, giving warp and filling patterns, reed and picks, and drafts, one with 23 or 32 harnesses. The issue also has a biographical portrait of designer James Hendry, book notices, queries and replies, situation-wanted ads and advertisements for Knowles looms and E. Lehmann pattern packets.