Article from The Melliand (May 1930) by Edwin J. Gibbons on designing and constructing woven name labels made on Jacquard drop-lay looms. It explains laying out designs on point paper, working out ends and picks, spacing letters, and painting figure and ground weaves. It also covers weaving face down and backwards, card cutting and arrangement, take-up control, stitching of extra filling picks, rayon and silk fillings, extra warp for figure, and a 5-harness satin rayon label. Illustrated with label photographs, a Jacquard card, and design grids.

First chapter of a series on commercial braiding by Edwin J. Gibbons, published in The Melliand Textile Monthly. It covers the history of braiding and braiding machines, the braid industry in Germany, England and the United States (with 1929 census figures on machines by state), and how braids differ from woven fabric. It also classifies braids as round or flat, lists the materials and products made on braiding machines, and describes the plain, diamond (basket) and Hercules stitches, illustrated with diagrams and photographs of braids.