A chapter from David Bremner's 'The Industries of Scotland' (1869) on calico-printing and Turkey-red dyeing. It sketches the ancient history of dyeing, the introduction of calico-printing into Europe and Britain, the legal restrictions and excise duties, and the five styles of printing. It then describes in detail the Dalquhurn Dyeworks and Cordale Printfield of William Stirling & Sons near Renton, covering bleaching, mordants, madder dyeing, discharge printing, block and hydraulic-press printing, output and wages.

A chapter on cotton manufactures from David Bremner's The Industries of Scotland (1869), tracing the history of the British cotton trade from early references in 1641 through the inventions of Kay, Wyatt, Arkwright, Hargreaves and Crompton. It covers the introduction of cotton spinning and weaving into Scotland (first mill at Rothesay, 1778; David Dale and New Lanark), the muslin trade, weavers' and spinners' combinations, strikes and riots, and the effects of the American Civil War and cotton famine. It includes statistical tables of imports, exports and factories by county, and ends with a description of a Glasgow cotton mill and its machines (carding, drawing, roving, throstle and mule spinning).

A chapter from David Bremner's 'The Industries of Scotland' (1869) on the history and condition of the Scottish linen and jute trades. It covers early acts of Parliament on linen, the Board of Trustees for Manufactures, the British Linen Company, and the stamping of linen cloth. It traces regional development in Forfarshire, Fifeshire, Perthshire and the north, with sections on Dunfermline damask table linen and Dundee's linen and jute factories. It describes the processes of flax and jute preparation, spinning, weaving and bleaching, and includes statistical tables of production, imports and factory numbers.

A chapter from David Bremner's The Industries of Scotland (1869) on the manufacture of fishing nets. It covers hand net-making in coastal villages, the shift from hemp to cotton twine, and the story of James Paterson, inventor of the net-loom at Musselburgh around 1820. It also describes J. & W. Stuart's Musselburgh factory, the preparation and spinning of hemp, how the net machine forms knotted meshes, the types of nets made, worker wages and conditions, and the spread of net manufacture to other Scottish towns.

A chapter from David Bremner's The Industries of Scotland (1869) on the manufacture of sewed (embroidered) muslin. It traces the history of embroidery from antiquity, the rise of the trade in Glasgow and Ayrshire in the early 19th century, its extension to the north of Ireland, and the lithographic printing of designs from 1837. It also covers how work was given out through agents, the 1857 crisis, working conditions of the sewers, and Heilmann's embroidering machine.

A chapter on woollen manufactures from David Bremner's The Industries of Scotland (1869). It traces the Scottish woollen trade from medieval and early modern attempts to set up manufactories, through the 18th-century state of the trade, to the 19th-century tweed industry. It describes the manufacturing processes (carding, spinning, dyeing, weaving, fulling, finishing), hosiery and stocking-frame knitting, and carpet making (Brussels, Wilton, Turkey-style, tapestry). The closing sections survey the chief woollen towns, including Galashiels, Hawick, Selkirk, Jedburgh, Langholm, Kilmarnock, Tillicoultry, Aberdeen and Inverness, with statistics on mills, looms, employment and output.