John Murphy's treatise on hand-loom weaving and the mounting of looms for cotton, linen, silk and wool fabrics, in the seventh edition, revised and enlarged. It covers loom mountings, draughts and cordings, tweeling (twills and satin weaves), lined work, dornic and diaper, double cloth, corduroys and velvets, gauze, nets, lappets, spotting, seeding and flushing, and the draw loom with harness work, design paper and colours. The final third consists of calculations and tables for yarn numbers, reed setts, warp and weft quantities and yarn prices, followed by an index. Hundreds of pages carry numbered weaving drafts and engraved plates.

A single page from Master Weaver, No. 13, January 1954. It opens with the end of an article on drawing down drafts for two-harness looms, with pattern frames and ground frames. Below that is a "From the Classics" excerpt from John Murphy's Treatise on the Art of Weaving, on taste in fancy weaving, quoting Dr. Blair's remarks on taste from his lectures on Rhetoric and the Belles Lettres.