A facsimile of James Holmes's manuscript-style first-year course notes on cotton weaving, published by Lupton Bros. of Burnley in 1912. It combines handwritten text and hand-drawn figures covering fabric structure and loom mechanics, with numbered exercises where students complete designs, looming and peg plans. Design topics include twills, spots, honeycombs, diamonds, crepes, Bedford cords, piques, extra warp and weft figuring, and shirting stripes. The mechanical sections cover shedding, tappet construction and driving, dobbies, the plain loom, picking motions, take-up, temples and the weft fork.

A facsimile of a handwritten and illustrated textbook of advanced cotton weaving for second- and third-year students, prepared for the City & Guilds of London Institutes examinations. It covers the Jacquard machine in its many forms (single and double lift, open shed, centre shed, cross border), card cutting, tie-ups and harness building, and design paper. It goes on to cover cloth structures: diapers, damasks, brocades, double cloths, gauze and leno, quilting, tapestries, terry and pile fabrics, figured velvets, carpets, lappet and swivel weaving, and novelty effects. Mechanical motions such as drop and skip boxes, dobbies, weft forks and automatic looms are also covered. Many pages carry line drawings of mechanisms, point-paper designs and weave diagrams. Trade advertisements for Lancashire textile machinery makers fill the end of the volume.

A short 1895 Burnley pamphlet explaining how simple woven patterns derive from twills, accompanied by a sheet of designs lettered A to Z. The text describes waves, spots, dice or check, broken, combination and corkscrew twills, weft- and warp-backed cloths, double cloths, satins, honeycombs, mock lenos and cords, and how each is obtained by altering the looming (drawing-in) or pegging plan. The design sheet shows drawdowns for each class of structure.