December 1919 issue of Textiles, a monthly technical journal of the textile trade published in Boston and edited by Samuel S. Dale. It carries serial technical articles on French worsted drawing, textile calculations, mechanics, power transmission, fibre identification, wool scouring, silk-water purification, knit goods manufacture, and vigoureux printing of worsted. Page 16 includes weave draft diagrams from E. Bittner's series on color effects on satin and other weaves. The issue also has an editorial on protection versus free trade, a metric-system controversy chronology, a questions and answers column, trade news, market prices, and many advertisements for dyes, machinery and supplies.