A paper presented at the 1915 annual meeting of the Textile Institute reporting a technical analysis of several hundred German and Austrian fabrics collected by the Board of Trade. Fabrics are described by number, with yarn counts, ends and picks per inch, twist direction, fibre content, dyes and finishing, selling prices, and weave, many with weave diagrams (Figs. 1-42). Groups include blankets, shawls, dressing-gown fabrics, flannelettes, printed furnishing fabrics, crepes, fancy yarn fabrics, men's suitings, and table linen, followed by concluding remarks and discussion.

A short encyclopedia article on carding, the combing of textile fibres to straighten them and remove impurities before spinning. It describes early hand cards and stock cards, then traces the development of mechanical carding through Hargreaves, Bourn, Lewis Paul, the elder Peel and Arkwright in the 18th century.

Encyclopedia Britannica (11th ed.) article on cotton-spinning machinery, covering the sequence of processes from ginning and baling through mill preparation to spinning, reeling and bundling. It describes the saw gin and Macarthy gin, bale breakers, openers and scutchers, carding engines, combing, drawing, slubbing, intermediate and roving frames, ring spinning and the self-acting mule. Historical notes on inventors such as Whitney, Arkwright, Crompton and Roberts are included. Illustrated with line diagrams of machines and two plates of photographs of a Manchester fine cotton-spinning mill.

A comprehensive technical treatise by T. W. Fox on the mechanics of power-loom weaving, in its fifth edition (1922, first published 1894). It covers healds, shedding by tappets, dobbies and Jacquards, figuring harnesses, card-cutting and lacing, lappet shedding, picking, multiple box motions, swivel and gauze weaving, reeds, brakes, let-off and take-up motions, temples, and the layout of weaving sheds. The text is heavily illustrated with mechanical line diagrams; weaving drafts and tie-ups appear on only a few pages.

Encyclopedia article tracing the history of spinning from the primitive hand spindle with whorl and distaff through the bobbing wheel, treadle wheel and Saxony flyer wheel. It then covers the mechanical inventions of the 18th and 19th centuries: Paul's roller drafting, Arkwright's water frame, Hargreaves's jenny, Crompton's mule, and the American dead-spindle and ring frames. A line drawing shows a primitive spindle.

Encyclopedia article defining yarn as any textile fibre spun for weaving, and describing single, folded and fancy yarns. It compares cotton, linen, woollen, worsted and silk yarns (including waste yarns such as shoddy and mungo) and gives the count systems used for each fibre. It also covers folded yarns for sewing, lace, crochet and hosiery, and fancy yarns such as grandrelle, flaked, corkscrewed, gimp, knopped and curled.