Baldwin's Textile Designer, Vol. 1, No. 9 (September 1888)
September 1888 issue (Vol. 1, No. 9) of Baldwin's Textile Designer, a monthly trade journal for woolen and worsted mill workers published by A. A. Baldwin at Brasher Falls, N.Y. It mixes essays on mill labor and overseers with technical pieces on woolen spinning, finishing, wool scouring and carbonizing, lubricants, loom picking motion, and carding engine clothing. Drafts and weaves appear in the article on composing and combining weaves and in the Latest Novelties section (Patterns 118-129 for fancy worsteds, cassimeres and diagonals, with warp patterns, picks per inch and drawing-in drafts). The issue also has reader correspondence about a design contest, a queries section, a note on the Jumbo lace machine, wants ads and advertisements for looms and pattern services.