A technical manual on the machinery used to prepare and spin jute yarn in Dundee-style mills, with over 140 scale diagrams. It covers boilers and engines, batching, breaker and finisher cards, drawing frames, roving, spinning frames, winding and related machines. Specifications, gearing, draft and twist calculations, speeds, production and waste figures are given in tables, and the book ends with reference tables of circle circumferences and areas.