Catalogue of a 1965 Royal Ontario Museum exhibition of Canadian textiles from 1750 to 1900, written by Harold B. Burnham. It opens with an introduction to the Ontario and Canadian Textile Projects, then covers Indian work (quillwork, beadwork, ribbon appliqué, plaiting), Quebec (boutonné and overshot coverlets, arrow sashes, quilts) and the Maritimes and Ontario (overshot, twill, double-cloth, summer and winter and jacquard coverlets, quilts, homespun dresses). Numbered entries (1-95) describe each piece with its materials, origin, date and donor or lender. The text discusses professional weavers such as Samuel Fry and Samuel Pentland, and the number of shafts required for some coverlets. It contains no weaving drafts.

Harold B. Burnham reports on a velvet ground weave derived from 3/1 twill (one pile end to three main ends) that he argues is characteristic of Spanish velvet weaving of the late fifteenth to sixteenth centuries. He traces it through Spanish chests, vargueño desks, over two hundred ecclesiastical embroideries, confraternity banners, stamped velvets and three figured velvets. He contrasts it with Italian and Chinese velvets by yarn twist and ground construction. He also proposes that Spanish velvet drawlooms used 840 pulley cords and their divisions, against the Italian 800. A technical résumé at the end gives warp, pile, weft, selvage and figure-harness details for each illustrated piece.