Part 1 of an International Textbook Company instruction text on the cloth rooms of American cotton mills, covering the processes cloth goes through after leaving the loom. It lists the operations (checking, inspecting, sewing, rolling, brushing, scraping and beating, shearing, calendering, folding, stamping, ticketing, baling) and discusses cloth-room layout and management. It then describes in detail the sewing-and-rolling machines, portable sewing machines, shearing-and-brushing machines, shear grinders, cotton brushers and calender-rolling arrangements, with numbered line drawings of the mechanisms.