William Watson's 1913 textbook continues his Textile Design and Colour, covering compound and special cloths in which two or more series of threads are used. It treats backed cloths, double and treble cloths, wadded and centre-stitched cloths, extra weft and extra warp figuring, special jacquard and harness mountings, figured muslins and damasks, tapestry and upholstery cloths, ingrain carpets, toilet and quilt fabrics, gauze and leno, Madras gauze, lappet and swivel weaving, and weft and warp pile fabrics including Turkish towelling, Wilton, Brussels, tapestry and Axminster carpets. The book is heavily illustrated with point-paper designs, weave plans, flat views, sections, loom mechanism diagrams and fabric photographs, and ends with an index.

A short illustrated article from Garden and Forest describing bamboos, the giant tropical grasses. It discusses the great bamboo of Penang and the Java Gigantochloa at the Peradeniya garden in Ceylon, their rapid growth, the species and genera and their distribution worldwide, and their many uses for food, building, mats, cordage and paper. It closes with remarks on hardy dwarf bamboos for European and American gardens.

A 1921 second edition of William Watson's textbook on the design and colouring of woven fabrics made from one warp and one weft system. It covers the construction of simple and special weaves (plain, twill, sateen, diamond, crepe, huckaback, corkscrew, Bedford cord, welts and piques), stripe and check combinations, calculations, colour theory, and colour-and-weave effects. It also treats Jacquard machines and harnesses and the designing of figured fabrics, with the arrangement of repeats and figures on point paper. Illustrated with hundreds of figures and drafts, and includes a new appendix on standard yarns, weaves and fabrics and an index.