A booklet of working drawings and brief instructions for building two counterbalance floor looms, a lighter Danish loom and a larger Swedish loom, both with swinging beaters. It includes dimensioned drawings of loom parts and of accessories: warping reel, spool rack, shuttles, floor swift, warp spreader (raddle), temple and fly shuttle beater. The 1973 printing adds pages on a contramarche (countermarch) tie-up with two sets of lams and on converting the loom to a jack type. The booklet is almost entirely drawings with short explanatory text.

Article by Edward F. Worst describing a sixth-grade project at the Yale Practice School in Chicago in which pupils grew flax and processed it by hand into thread and cloth. It covers sowing, harvesting, removing seed, retting, breaking, hackling, brushing, spinning, warping and preparing the loom, with shop-made apparatus such as the brake and hackle. Four photographs show the seed removal, pounding/breaking/hackling, brushing and spinning stages.

Excerpt of Chapter IV from Edward F. Worst's Weaving with Foot-Power Looms (Dover reprint), on analyzing woven patterns for four-heddle (four-harness) weaving. It explains how to derive a draft from a woven fabric by numbering blocks of color and assigning heddle combinations under six principles, with two worked analyses (Figs. 193-195). It then explains two methods of blocking out a pattern from a draft on squared paper, using the Solomon's Delight draft (Figs. 196-198), including the exact method and the case where treadling differs from threading.