A 1929 article by Professor F. Pichler on the technical basis of testing textile yarns and fabrics, with emphasis on how atmospheric humidity and fiber moisture content affect results. It lists the instruments of a textile testing office and describes the conditioning (drying) apparatus of the Schopper type. It then covers the effect of moisture on yarn number, bundle and tube weights, yarn strength, ash content, and fat extraction. It also gives trade tolerances under the Vienna and Prague exchanges and the German cotton contract, plus a method for determining cotton in union fabrics.