A single page from the Master Weaver (No. 20, March 1955). It opens with the end of an article on weaving chenille pattern rugs, covering staggered weft picks (Fig. 5), the Locked Wefts technique and handling of chenille weft, bobbins and shuttles. It closes with the start of a 'From the Classics' column quoting the opening of Alexander Peddie's 'The Linen Manufacturer' (Glasgow, 1822) on the ancient origins of weaving.

Selected pages from Alexander Peddie's 1817 Glasgow manual for linen manufacturers, weavers and warpers. The surviving section covers household customary fancy weaving: how to read and draw drafts and cordings, and how to set up treadles, marches, long and short marches, and the back harness. It treats tweels (regular and broken), tweeled stripes, dimity cord, damask tweel, and multi-leaf mountings from 4 to 16 leaves. It also covers design paper, reading a design onto the draught, the draw loom, and two-colour carpets and bed-covers. Most pages are numbered drafts, cording grids and engraved plates.

A fourth-edition (1814) Glasgow handbook by Alexander Peddie for cotton and linen manufacturers, weavers and warpers. Most of the book is numbered tables for heddle (camb) weights, yarn quantities per web, warp lengths, starch quantities, eveners for beaming, reed and camb settings, weaving prices in Perth, and list prices of cotton twist yarn. Arithmetical rules with worked examples explain calculating warps and reeds. The final section gives about 44 numbered drafts and cordings (tie-ups and treadling) for cord, spot, nett, flushing, gauze, crape and velveteen cloths, plus pressure harness.

A one-page reprint from the 'From the Classics' column of Master Weaver (No. 15, May 1954) of Alexander Peddie's 1822 Glasgow instructions for boiling linen yarn. It describes steeping the yarn in soft water, boiling it with pot ashes and then pearl ashes, washing out the lye, and drying it. The aim is to soften and clean the yarn, make it firmer, and let the weaver set the cloth closer. An editorial footnote gives approximate ash proportions and explains the difference between pot ash and pearl ash.