An elementary manual teaching mechanical drawing to textile students, written by a Dundee Technical College weaving instructor and a textile-engineering chief draughtsman. It moves from pencils, paper and instruments through line exercises, plane geometry, orthographic projection, bolts, screws and keys, sketching of details, scale drawing and small assemblies. Worked exercises use real textile machine parts such as loom levers, treadle levers, roving frame slides, faller reception levers, a breaker card worker roller and a picking-cone stud. It has many dimensioned figures and contains no weaving drafts.