Sir Thomas Wardle's 1904 account of the introduction and growth of the silk industry (sericiculture) in Kashmir, drawing on his correspondence with the India Office, conference proceedings, and reports from visits to France, Italy and Kashmir. It covers egg purchase, cocoon rearing, filature construction, cocoon reeling, silk quality, state versus private enterprise, and a proposal to introduce silk weaving in Kashmir. Later chapters cover Kashmir geology, fossils, ornithology, big-game sport, and a 1885-6 tour of the Bengal silk districts, including Tussur silk reeling and a tiger hunt. Illustrated with about 45 plates of scenery, filatures, fossils, and local life.

A 1893 brochure by Thomas Wardle, read in 1891 before the Weaving and Power-Loom Committee of the Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland, urging British silk manufacturers to adopt power-loom weaving as Lyons manufacturers had. It describes power-loomed fabrics seen at the Chantiers de la Buire, with numbered samples (foulard, surah, damask, gauze, faille, pekin, velours, moiré antique, bengaline, trousering). Each sample has a table of weaving price, wages paid to women, warp and weft, width, daily output, shuttle speed and loom cost. Later sections describe the Laeserson and Wilkes perfected loom (harness, dobby, let-off, picking), a new American loom for narrow goods, and an improved Jacquard machine, with engravings and advertisements for machinery makers.