A comprehensive technical textbook on the design and manufacture of dress, blouse, and costume fabrics in silk, artificial silk, cotton, linen, worsted and woollen. It covers the commercial and industrial side of the dress trade, yarn structure (including thrown, spun and artificial silk and fancy folded yarns), weave elements and point-paper plans, and striped, checked, spotted, mosaic and figured designs. Later chapters treat pile, curl, lappet and gauze structures. It is illustrated with over 700 figures, including many weave drafts and photographs of fabric specimens.