First issue of Posselt's Textile Journal, a monthly trade and educational journal of the textile industries published in Philadelphia. It carries instructional series on figured dress goods and Jacquard designing, point paper and harness work, fibre and fabric testing, silk production, and knitting processes and machinery. It also covers bleaching, dyeing and finishing, water softening, defects in fabrics, shearing, mill lighting, humidification, and electric drive. A Dictionary of Weaves (eight-, nine- and ten-harness drawdowns) and a dictionary of technical terms are included, along with many machinery advertisements and trade news items from mills.