Two pages from the trade journal Textiles (pp. 14-15). The first is a continuation of Leon Faux's series on French worsted spinning, covering mixing gill-boxes, doubling of slivers, and winding sliver onto bobbins with a bobbin-winding frame. The second is the start of J. L. Girard's article on purifying water for silk processes, explaining how lime in rinse water forms insoluble soaps that dull silk, and contrasting water treatment for dyeing with that for boilers.