A practical manual for loom fixers and weavers, compiled and revised by A. A. Baldwin from articles in the Designer & Weaver (1881-82) and other reprints. Part I covers setting up and adjusting the Crompton loom (belt, picking motion, box motion, shuttle swells, filling chain, harness motion, putting in the warp, shuttle and temple troubles). Part II covers the Knowles open-shed fancy loom, including chain building, box operation, chain drafts, hanging harnesses and the pinions. Part III covers cam-loom weaving (cam drafting for doeskins, satinet and beaver cloth, yarn calculations), spreading the warp threads, and advice on managing a weaving room, followed by advertisements.

A 1890 manual for woolen-mill designers and loom workers, written to let readers teach themselves textile designing and weaving. It covers design-paper notation, terminology, dissecting a sample cloth, and the stock figuring that goes with it: loss in manufacture, wool shrinkage and cost, and mixes. It then works through attaching backs to fabrics, combining weaves, double and triple (three-ply) weaves, miscellaneous weaves, and broken twills and satins. Later chapters give yarn count tables and calculations, and instructions for setting up right- and left-hand twills on cam and chain looms. More than sixty pages carry weave drafts and drawdown figures, and the text refers to cloth samples made for the book.

A late-19th-century American manual on designing and weaving plain and fancy woolen cloths (cassimeres, coatings, beavers, doeskins) on cam and harness looms. Twelve chapters cover pattern taste, color arrangement, picking out (drafting from a sample), plain cloth, double pick and basket weaves, twills, diagonal cords, ribs, miscellaneous weaves, combined weaves, and tables and rules for yarn calculations. Numbered weaves are shown as drawdown grids with working rules for warp, reed, picks per inch, and finishing, followed by large plates of pickouts with drawing-in drafts for up to 48 harnesses. Advertisements for wool merchants and a textile journal appear at the front and back.