Three-page extract of engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, showing knots used in silk weaving (soierie) mills. The plates illustrate step-by-step knot diagrams in silk cords, including flat knots, lace knots, loop knots, and pelote knots, with numbered figures and lettered cord ends. A title page prepared by Philippe Demoule introduces the set as Part I of the weaving plates.

A set of ten engraved plates from the Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopédie showing the weaving of silk velvet (soierie, velours). The plates show the velours ciselé loom in perspective and side elevation, the cantre (creel) and broken batten, warp construction and warping for velvet, and the successive shuttle passes and pile-wire insertions for frisé (uncut loop) and coupé (cut) velvet. Further plates show cutting tools, shuttles, reeds, temples, and silk-throwing wheels (rouet à canette, rouet ourdissoir). Text is limited to plate captions and figure numbers in French.

A short set of engraved plates on gauze weaving from the Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopédie, compiled as Part IV of a weaving plates series by Philippe Demoule. It shows the gauze loom (métier à gaze) in lengthwise and front views with detail figures, plus plates illustrating the functions of the heddles (lisses) and the development of the loom. Captions are in French and there is no explanatory text.

Eight pages of engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, gathered as Part IX (miscellaneous) of a set of weaving plates. The plates cover silk manufacture (soierie): calendering machines and their furnace, chining (warp-dyeing) of fabric warps, lace and ribbon-making looms, and the heddle-cord and loop (maille) techniques used in silk weaving. The plates are mostly machinery and technique illustrations with lettered reference marks and scale bars. They contain no weaving drafts.

Six-page set of engraved plates on ribbon weaving (rubanier) from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, prepared as Part V of a weaving plates series by Philippe Demoule. The plates show the ribbon loom (métier à faire le ruban) in plan, front, tabular, side and rear elevations, and in disassembled and developed views, with numbered detail figures of heddles, shuttles, bobbins, gears, cams, pulleys, levers and treadle mechanisms. Only captions and figure numbers appear, with no explanatory text.

A set of six pages reproducing engraved plates on silk weaving from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, Part VI of a series of weaving plates, devoted to brocaded fabrics (étoffes brochées). The plates show the brocade drawloom in perspective, side and front elevation, with its cords, pulleys, harness and heddles, a pattern cartoon with a color key, the rame and sample cords, the lacs, and a 'new machine for the tire' (draw mechanism). Captions are in French; the title page credits Philippe Demoule for preparing the set.

A set of eleven engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie, devoted to silk weaving (soierie) of plain fabrics such as taffeta, satin and serge. The plates show warping frames (ourdissoir), cantres, the operations of preparing and beaming the warp, the plain-fabric loom and the ribbon loom with its reed rack, and loom parts such as the carette and heddle carrier. The final plates give diagrams of taffeta, ribbon and satin weaves (5, 8 and 9 shafts) with warp and weft interlacings and harness and draw-cord arrangements. Text is limited to French plate captions and figure numbers.

A set of twelve engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie on silk manufacture (Soierie), compiled as Part VIII of a series of weaving plates. The plates show silk reeling and throwing equipment: the Piedmont throwing mill for organzine, Vaucanson's mill, the Spanish reel (Tour d'Espagne), reeling frames, the oval throwing machine, and the rouet de lion. Captions are in French, with numbered figures and scales in pieds, pouces and toises.

Four-page set of engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, labelled Part X, Thread/Fil. It shows spinning wheels (rouet) and reels or winders (dévidoir), plus thread-throwing mills in round, square and oval forms, with numbered figures showing gearing, spindles and bobbins. The pages carry only plate titles and figure numbers, with no explanatory text.

Part XII of a compiled set of weaving plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, devoted to passementerie (trimmings, braid, galloon, ribbon and fringe making). The engraved plates show workshops, galloon looms, figured-ribbon looms, fringe looms, low-warp looms, twisting (retors) equipment, and tools for making reeds (peignes) and heddles (lisses). Pages carry French plate titles and figure numbers only, with no explanatory text. Two plates show galloon pattern designs or drafts and ways of passing the pattern.

Set of engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie illustrating the Marly (Marli) loom, a draw loom used for weaving gauze-like fabric. The plates show perspective views, a lateral elevation and front elevation with a scale bar, and detailed drawings of the individual loom parts, numbered by figure. The cover page credits Philippe Demoule for preparing the set; the only text is the plate captions in French.

A set of engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie showing the silk dyer's trade. The plates depict dyeing vats and vessels, a dyer's workshop with tools, preparation of silks, washing silk in the river, and a frame for drying hanks of silk skeins. Captions are in French and figures are numbered, with a scale for one figure. The title page credits Philippe Demoule with preparing this part.

A set of engraved plates on the weaver (Tisserand) from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, prepared as Part III of a series of weaving plates. The plates show a French plain-cloth (linen) loom in perspective, plan, front and side elevation, with numbered figures of the frame, beams, heddles, reed, treadles, shuttles, temples and joints. The pages carry only plate titles and figure numbers, with no explanatory text.