A practical manual for loom fixers and weavers, compiled and revised by A. A. Baldwin from articles in the Designer & Weaver (1881-82) and other reprints. Part I covers setting up and adjusting the Crompton loom (belt, picking motion, box motion, shuttle swells, filling chain, harness motion, putting in the warp, shuttle and temple troubles). Part II covers the Knowles open-shed fancy loom, including chain building, box operation, chain drafts, hanging harnesses and the pinions. Part III covers cam-loom weaving (cam drafting for doeskins, satinet and beaver cloth, yarn calculations), spreading the warp threads, and advice on managing a weaving room, followed by advertisements.

A 1890 manual for woolen-mill designers and loom workers, written to let readers teach themselves textile designing and weaving. It covers design-paper notation, terminology, dissecting a sample cloth, and the stock figuring that goes with it: loss in manufacture, wool shrinkage and cost, and mixes. It then works through attaching backs to fabrics, combining weaves, double and triple (three-ply) weaves, miscellaneous weaves, and broken twills and satins. Later chapters give yarn count tables and calculations, and instructions for setting up right- and left-hand twills on cam and chain looms. More than sixty pages carry weave drafts and drawdown figures, and the text refers to cloth samples made for the book.