A 1910 textbook on textile design and fabric construction for weavers and mill students, by Fenwick Umpleby. It begins with the hand loom, harness, heddles and design paper, then covers twills, cut weaves, drafting and reduction, rib, basket, sateen, corkscrew and fancy weaves, and diaper and point draws. Later sections give lectures on color, numbered design problems with thread and pick sections, and yarn counts, reed and sett, and cloth analysis calculations. The book ends with plates of standard weaves for 3 to 12 harnesses and has many drawdowns and review questions.

A 1909 correspondence-school manual on textile design by Fenwick Umpleby of the Lowell Textile School. It runs from design paper, drafting and plain cloth through twills, sateens, rib and basket weaves, backed cloths, double and triple cloths, pile/plush, piqué, Jacquard designing, and gauze and leno. It closes with sections on textile coloring and on mill cost finding. The book has many weave plans and drafts, practice exercises, and loom illustrations.