An elementary manual teaching mechanical drawing to textile students, written by a Dundee Technical College weaving instructor and a textile-engineering chief draughtsman. It moves from pencils, paper and instruments through line exercises, plane geometry, orthographic projection, bolts, screws and keys, sketching of details, scale drawing and small assemblies. Worked exercises use real textile machine parts such as loom levers, treadle levers, roving frame slides, faller reception levers, a breaker card worker roller and a picking-cone stud. It has many dimensioned figures and contains no weaving drafts.

An elementary mathematics textbook for textile students, Part I of two, written by a Dundee weaving instructor and a textile-engineering draughtsman. It covers algebraic signs, brackets and symbolic notation, then the mensuration of rectangles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, arcs and sectors, gear wheels, rectangular solids, specific gravity, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres. Worked examples draw on textile practice such as yarn counts, loom speed, take-up rollers, cloth costs, bobbins and sizing machines. A chapter-by-chapter set of exercises with answers closes the book.

A 1921 textbook of mathematics for textile students, Part II of a two-part work by Thomas Woodhouse and Alexander Brand. It covers ratio, proportion and variation, averages, percentages, loss and regain (moisture conditioning), mixtures and costs, indices and logarithms, trigonometrical ratios, and yarn counts for cotton, linen, jute, woollen and worsted systems. Worked examples use mill problems such as pulley speeds, dressing mixtures, yarn blends and twist contraction. The book ends with exercises with answers, a section of useful data (gear formulae, weights and measures, mensuration rules) and logarithm and trigonometric tables.

John Murphy's treatise on hand-loom weaving and the mounting of looms for cotton, linen, silk and wool fabrics, in the seventh edition, revised and enlarged. It covers loom mountings, draughts and cordings, tweeling (twills and satin weaves), lined work, dornic and diaper, double cloth, corduroys and velvets, gauze, nets, lappets, spotting, seeding and flushing, and the draw loom with harness work, design paper and colours. The final third consists of calculations and tables for yarn numbers, reed setts, warp and weft quantities and yarn prices, followed by an index. Hundreds of pages carry numbered weaving drafts and engraved plates.