An early twentieth-century essay by Ella Mary Shinn on American hand-woven coverlets, sorting them into three classes by structure: overshot, double-faced cloth (the so-called Summer and Winter), and true double cloth. It describes how each is constructed, the number of heddles or harnesses needed, and how the cloths differ in surface and compactness. Photographs show samples of overshot, double-faced and double-woven cloth. It has no weaving drafts.