An 18th-century German treatise on silk manufacture, the eleventh essay in Johann Samuel Halle's series on the workshops of the contemporary arts. It covers the natural history of the silkworm, mulberry cultivation and raising of silkworms, reeling and throwing (organzine and tram) silk, and the looms and weaving of common silk fabrics. Fabrics treated include satin, gros de tours, moire, velvet and gold and silver brocades, with descriptions of drawloom operation, harnesses and pattern drawing. It closes with a supplement on silk dyeing, an explanation of the engraved plates of silk-making tools and machines, and part of the general index.

The tenth treatise from Johann Samuel Halle's Werkstäte der heutigen Künste (1761) describes the textile trades of 18th-century Germany. It covers the cotton manufacture (cleaning and carding, spinning on the Swiss wheel, the cotton loom and its parts, sizing the warp, bleaching, and block printing of calico) and the linen manufacture (flax preparation, spinning, plain and patterned linen and damask weaving, bleaching, dyeing of yarn). Later sections treat sewing and embroidery, laundering, bobbin lace making, kinds of lace and linen, and tables of weights and measures in various cities. There is an engraved frontispiece of a weaving workshop and a plate of equipment, but no weaving drafts.

The sixteenth treatise (pp. 153-238 of vol. 2) of Johann Samuel Halle's 'Werkstätte der heutigen Künste', 1762, on wool trades. It opens with sheep and wool grades, then covers the cloth weaver (sorting, washing, carding, spinning, weaving, fulling, shearing, pressing), the weavers of serge, etamine and figured woolens, the stocking weaver, hatter, tapestry weaver, button maker, dyeing (woad, indigo, kermes, cochineal, madder, color mixing, fastness tests), the ribbon and braid weaver (Bortenwirker) with gold thread, and the tailor. The book has an engraved frontispiece and a plate of wool-working tools; it has no weaving drafts.