A late-Victorian textbook on power-loom weaving and the design of woven textile fabrics, written by a technical instructor for students of the trade. It opens with a history of textile manufacture, then covers loom mechanisms (tappets, healds, Jacquard, picking, take-up, let-off, stop motions), followed by designing on point paper: twills, satins, spot figures, double cloth, Jacquard figures, pile or plush, gauze, and honeycomb cloths. Later chapters treat setting of reeds, yarn counts and calculations, colour theory, and appendices on thread structure and the Jacquard machine and draw loom. Illustrated with many figures and about 65 pages of drafts and drawdowns; includes period advertisements for loom makers at the front and back.