Two pages from the December 1880 Textile Record of America. They carry a series of fancy woolen and worsted cloth designs reprinted from The English Textile Manufacturer, each with design, pegging plan and draft grids, thread descriptions (yarn counts, warp totals, reed, fulling shrinkage, finish) and picking orders. The second page includes J. Seillon's article on double-faced silk tissues (satin face with faille reverse), translated from Le Moniteur des Soies, with reed count and weft allowance. The pages also include text on the Bradford worsted trade and French competition, wool scouring and the 'vital oil' of the fibre, and market reports.

A fourth-edition French textbook on weaving silks and ribbons, by J. Seillon, a weaving teacher in Saint-Étienne. It opens with a glossary of trade terms, then covers textile materials (silk, cotton), warping, drafting and the basic weaves such as satin, twill and taffeta. The main body treats ribbon types: figured taffetas, gauze, brocaded, pile, fringe, picot, guipure and crêpe. Later sections cover Jacquard and tambour looms, dyeing arrangements, cost-price calculations, colour harmony and silk-count tables. About 20 plates of weave drawdowns (point-paper diagrams) in black and red close the volume.