A short German encyclopedia entry on Angora wool (mohair), the hair of the Angora goat. It describes the fibre's fineness, silky luster and curly structure, colors and grades, and its microscopic appearance. It also gives fibre diameter, length, fleece weight, and annual export volume.

Encyclopedia article on cotton (Baumwolle) from the 14th edition of Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. It covers the botany of the Gossypium species, cultivation, harvesting, ginning and baling, and the grading of commercial cotton. A long table gives color, purity, fibre length and thickness, and bale weight for cottons from North and South America, the West Indies, Africa, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Persia, India, China and Japan. The article closes with production, trade, import and price statistics up to 1903, and a note on medical uses and on guncotton and collodion.

Encyclopedia article on the cotton industry from Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexicon. It traces the history of cotton manufacture from India through China, the Near East, Europe, the Americas and England, then gives statistics on spindles, looms, workers, capital and trade for Britain, the USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Russia, India and Japan. It ends with a table of yarn and cloth exports and a bibliography of works on cotton manufacture.

Encyclopedia article on cotton spinning from Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon, covering the preparatory stage of cotton processing. It describes ginning machines (saw gin and the Macarthy knife gin), then the opening and cleaning machines: the Klopfwolf (beater), the Crighton opener, and the scutcher or lap-forming machine (Schlag- und Wickelmaschine), including a combined pneumatic-feed system. It ends with cross-references to the articles on spinning and the cotton industry. A plate shows six engravings of the machines.

A short German encyclopedia entry defining felt as a structure of tangled animal hairs, chiefly sheep's wool, hare and rabbit fur, whose fibers are bonded by bowing, felting and fulling rather than weaving. It lists uses such as hats, steam cylinder coverings, damping in musical instruments and shoes. It also notes the papermaking sense of the term: a coarse, loosely woven, lightly fulled woolen cloth placed between sheets of paper when they are removed from the mold.

An encyclopedia article on felt manufacture from Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexicon. It explains how animal hairs mat together under moisture, heat, and pressure, and describes hand and machine production of felt hats: preparing fur and wool, forming and fulling the hat bodies, shearing, stiffening with shellac, and finishing. It ends with German import and export figures for felt goods and hats in 1900.

Encyclopedia article on weaving from the 14th edition of Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. It defines weaving and gives a short history from hand frame looms through the Jacquard mechanism (c. 1808) to power looms (Cartwright, Horrocks, Roberts). It describes warp preparation (winding, warping, sizing, beaming), fabric types (plain, twill, satin, patterned, velvet, gauze, double cloth), hand and power looms, shuttles, heddles, reed, and the Jacquard mechanism. Two plates of numbered engravings of machinery and looms and a bibliography of contemporary German, English and French textbooks are included.

A German encyclopedia article on the knitting or hosiery machine (Wirkmaschine) from Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon, 14th edition. It explains the difference between weft-knitting (Kulierstuhl) and warp-knitting (Kettenstuhl) frames, flat and circular machines, and the hook and latch needles, sinkers and presser used in loop formation. It covers William Lee's 1589 hand frame, the Paget and Cotton frames, and the Lamb flat knitting machine of 1866, and lists literature on the subject. A plate of numbered illustrations shows stitch formation, machine sections and details.

Encyclopedia entry on wool from Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (1903). It defines wool as animal hair that forms a staple, and covers fiber fineness, thickness, elasticity, crimp types, and the fleece structure. It gives tables of crimp grades, chemical composition, historical wool prices, European and world production, and raw wool imports by country, and suitability for woolen versus worsted spinning. It ends with a bibliography of German and English works on wool.