A single-page illustration from China Pictorial (1976, No. 3) showing a black-and-white photograph of a field of harvested ambary hemp. Stalks lie in rows in the foreground and bundled stalks are stacked in tall piles behind, with workers in the field. The caption says Yentai is one of China's main producers of ambary hemp and that per mu output has more than doubled in recent years.

A short illustrated overview from China Pictorial's History of Chinese Science and Technology series on the development of Chinese weaving, from Shang and Chou silk culture through Han, Tang, Sung, Ming and Ching dynasties to modern mechanized mills. It covers silk reeling, jacquard gauze, brocade, early looms and shuttles, the pedal loom, and cotton innovations by the weaver Huang Tao-po. Photographs show Han tomb textiles, a Han stone-rubbing of looms, Astana brocade, and modern jacquard looms and mills. The closing section reflects the 1976 political perspective on the post-Liberation textile industry.

A single-page color photograph from China Pictorial, 1976, No. 2, showing a smiling herdsman named Azan crouching on grass and holding a sheep, with other sheep grazing behind him. The only text is a one-line caption saying he carefully tends the commune's sheep. It is of limited use for weaving, but it illustrates sheep raising on a Chinese commune.

A single photograph from China Pictorial showing the beaming shop of the Peking No. 2 Cotton Mill, with rows of warp beams and bobbins on racks and workers in a large factory hall. The caption notes that Peking's textile industry covers cotton, woollen, silk, chemical fibre, knitwear, and printing and dyeing mills.

A two-page photo article from China Pictorial (1965) on China's new chemical fibre industry, centered on the Nanking Chemical Fibre Factory. Photographs show the dope-preparation room, a staple fibre spinning room, installation of a filament spinning machine, and a drying machine for wool-type viscose fibre. The short text says viscose fibre factories began production that year using domestic materials, supplying the textile industry with raw material for rayons and viscose staple blends.

A single page from China Pictorial (1976, No. 9) with a black-and-white photograph of a cotton field. Rows of cotton plants run to the horizon, with a tractor and equipment in the distance and trees along the right edge. The only text is the caption "Cotton fields." The catalog notes place the scene in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

A single photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, No. 4, showing workers tending a cotton field on a terraced hillside, with a large earthen embankment at upper right. The catalog notes place it in the Taihang Mountains of Shansi Province. The page has no readable text and no weaving content, so it is useful only as an illustration of cotton cultivation in China in the 1970s.

A photo-essay from China Pictorial on State No. 9 Cotton Mill in Tsingtao (Qingdao) after workers seized power during the Cultural Revolution. It describes study of Mao's works, a revolutionary committee, production quotas met in the finishing shop, and technical innovations such as a modified drawing frame and spinning machine. Photographs show spinning, drawing frame, dyeing and printing, and finishing areas of the mill. The text is political in tone and gives limited technical textile detail.

A single black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, showing cotton spread out in rows across a large field with workers standing among the rows. The caption states that total annual cotton output in the Huai River valley is five times the early post-Liberation figure.

A single-page illustration from China Pictorial showing workers harvesting cotton in a field. The caption says the cotton was reaped by the No. 3 brigade of the Tangjiang commune in Tienmen County, Hupeh Province, which produced 75 kilos of ginned cotton per mu in 1975.

A single-page black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial showing cotton being shipped along a river. A long line of cargo boats is loaded with white sacks and bales, and compressed cotton bales are stacked on barges in the foreground, with workers on the boats. No legible text or caption is present.

A single-page color photograph from China Pictorial, 1965, No. 5, showing a woman worker in a white head covering and white apron with red Chinese characters reaching toward a rack of cotton thread spools. The page appears to be an illustration of cotton spinning or thread production in a textile mill. The text on the page is illegible, so no caption details can be determined.

A single-page photo feature from China Pictorial showing workers at the Peking No. 3 Cotton Textile Mill. The caption describes an emulation campaign in which weavers learn from skilled colleagues to improve output and quality, and the photograph shows four young women at a loom demonstrating quick methods of tying up broken yarn. Photograph by Sung Hsueh-kuang.

A two-page illustrated feature from China Pictorial showing archaeological finds from Sinkiang (Xinjiang), China. Photographs with captions show Han, Sui, Northern Liang and Tang textiles from Astana (Turfan County) and the Niya site (Minfeng County), including brocades, a brocade robe, a tapestry belt, embroidery, painted gauze and batik-dyed cotton, along with a Neolithic painted jar and silk paintings. The short text introduces the region, the Silk Road and the preservation of relics, and notes that cotton was first grown in Sinkiang.

A single-page photo feature from China Pictorial showing members of a people's commune in Yanghsin County, Hupeh Province, cutting ramie in the fields. The caption reports a good harvest from 40,000 mu in the county, an increase over the previous year. The photograph shows workers bent over the plants in a large field with hills and terraced land behind.

A single-page black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, showing the interior of a Chinese spinning mill. A worker rides a small electric carrier vehicle along long frames of spindles with bobbins and roving. The caption says the electrical carriers spare textile workers from walking around the spindles.

A short illustrated piece from China Pictorial about the first blanket made by a woollen textile mill run by the Eighth Route Army. It describes the economic blockade of the Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia Border Region during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the production drive in which soldiers and civilians learned to spin and weave. A photograph shows the folded woolen blanket with horizontal bands of woven pattern.

A single-page black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial showing a large flock of sheep grazing on open grassland, with a herdsman on horseback and distant animal pens. The caption says herdsmen of Hsiang-huang Banner in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region overcame natural disasters and raised livestock numbers to a record high. It is background on sheep raising, a source of wool, and has no weaving content.

A single-page photograph from China Pictorial, 1966 No. 2, titled "Flocks". It shows a large flock of goats moving through a misty conifer forest in soft morning light, with dust rising from the ground. The page carries only the title and a photographer credit, with no text on weaving or textiles.

A single photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, No. 11, showing factory workers studying conditions in a hemp-producing area. Men stand in a field of tall hemp plants, one holding a measuring rod against the stalks while another points. The only text is a one-line caption.

A single-page photographic illustration from China Pictorial showing a large flock of improved Mongolian fine-wool sheep grazing on a green grassland slope with hills behind. The only text is a caption identifying the breed. The catalog notes place the scene on the Hulun Buir Steppe.

A single color photograph from China Pictorial, 1976 No. 10, showing workers harvesting cotton in a field with mountains in the background. The caption identifies Yang Chao, head of the scientific experiment group of Taochieh brigade, Taochieh commune. The catalog notes place the scene in the Nunkiang River Basin.

A single black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial showing the interior of the Lintze Woollen Mill in Tibet. It shows rows of large carding or spinning machinery with rollers and frames, and many cylindrical cans holding fibre slivers. The only text is the caption.

A single page from China Pictorial (1976, No. 3) with two black-and-white photographs of the interior of a new cotton textile, printing and dyeing complex. The photos show large rolls of yarn or fabric on racks and machinery, with workers at their stations. The only text is a short caption.

A single page of two photographs from China Pictorial, 1976 no. 3, showing the interior of a sisal cord plant in the Tanga Region of Tanzania. The images show rows of machinery for spinning or twisting rope, with coils of golden sisal fibre stacked below and fibre strands running through the equipment. There is no readable text on the page.

A short illustrated article from China Pictorial on the Khotan Filature in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region, built by the government in 1953-54. It describes the shift from hand reeling on simple wheels to modern reeling, weaving and dyeing, and the training of Uighur, Kazakh, Hui and Han women workers, including training sent to Soochow. Photographs show the filature shop, workers at machinery, and skeins of wound silk.

A short illustrated piece from China Pictorial on Moso bamboo cultivation in Anchi County, Chekiang Province. It describes the importance of bamboo in Chinese life, from early writing slips to building material, farm tools and baskets, and reports on local planting and scientific cultivation methods. Photographs show bamboo groves and woven bamboo baskets made in commune workshops.

A single black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial showing a teacher and five students of a cotton research group examining a branch of a cotton plant with open bolls. The caption identifies them as studying a new cotton strain. There is no further text or technical content.

A short illustrated article from China Pictorial on a state reclamation farm in Kiangsi Province, China, that developed mulberry orchards and sericulture on barren red-soil hills north of Nanchang. It describes the farm's founding in 1957 by cadres and demobilized soldiers, its silkworm and sapling supply to nearby communes, and the growth of its silk mill from handicraft looms to a medium-sized industrial complex producing 10,000 metres of silk and brocade a day. Photographs show mulberry plantings, silkworm tending, and the brocade factory.

A single-page color photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, showing many workers, mostly women in headscarves, bending over rows of cotton plants in a flat field to pick cotton by hand. The caption states that per mu output has reached over 50 kilos. Useful as a visual record of cotton harvesting in China in the 1970s.

A single photograph from China Pictorial showing the interior of a bedsheet factory with a long industrial printing machine. A large piece of white fabric printed with a brownish-red floral or leaf pattern runs across the foreground over a roller. No text is legible on the page.

A 1965 illustrated article from China Pictorial on cotton growing in the south Shansi (Shanxi) region of China, centered on the Yangtan brigade and the Linfen-Yuncheng Basin. It describes cooperation between brigades, demonstration fields, scientific research at the Yuncheng Cotton Research Institute, irrigation and electrification, and efforts to protect seedlings after spring rains. Photographs show cotton fields, field laboratories, pumping stations, tool repair shops and farmers.

A single-page illustration from China Pictorial, 1976, No. 11, showing a photograph of workers seated on wooden chairs weaving rattan baskets in a dim workshop, with finished baskets stacked nearby. The caption describes rattan basketry as a side-line organized by the production teams. The catalog notes link it to the Miao Mountains.

A single black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, No. 7, showing two people shearing a sheep with hand shears while onlookers stand behind them. The caption names Tandzin, a Party committee secretary of Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Chou and Party branch secretary of No. 1 brigade, Thangkor commune, shearing with a commune member. It documents wool harvesting by hand in a Tibetan area of China.

A single-page illustration from China Pictorial, 1975, No. 6, showing a photograph of a large flock of sheep driven along a tree-lined road by herders. The caption says the brigade's livestock grew from 2,500 to 7,000 animals over the past decade. It has no weaving content, but it is relevant as background on wool-producing livestock in rural China.

A single page from China Pictorial (1975, No. 10) with two color photographs of a shepherd and his flock of sheep and goats grazing on green grassland near water. The only text is a caption placing the scene in north Senegal. It contains no weaving or textile instruction.

A single photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, showing a worker operating a long spindle-bearing yarn machine inside a shop of the Sana Textile Printing and Dyeing Mill in Yemen. The only text is a one-line caption. It is useful as a visual record of industrial textile production in Yemen in the 1970s.

A single-page colour photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, No. 5, showing large flocks of sheep on a wide grassland plain, herded by riders on horseback, with a tree-covered hillside and mountains in the background. No readable text is present beyond the catalog caption, so the item is of interest mainly for wool-producing livestock and pastoral life in China.

A single black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial showing sisal hemp fields in Hsuwen County, on the Leichow Peninsula. Rows of agave-like sisal plants cover sloping ground, with trees along the horizon and two small carts or wagons on the field track. The only text is a one-line caption.

A short illustrated feature from China Pictorial on sling bags and laces made for minority peoples in Yunnan, China. It describes the Tai people's long tradition of making sling bags, the Nationality Articles Manufacturing Plant in Kunming, and the shift to mechanized or semi-mechanized production in state-run factories and cooperatives. Photographs show finished bags with woven and embroidered bands, lace and braid strips, and a lace-making machine.

A single page from China Pictorial (1976, No. 1) with a black-and-white photograph of people spinning thread on wooden spinning wheels in a courtyard with arched, lattice-paned windows. The caption says that during the Great Production Movement, soldiers and civilians in Yenan all took part in spinning and weaving. It is a historical illustration of hand spinning, not a technical document.

A single black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial showing the interior of a large industrial spinning shop, with long rows of spinning machinery and workers standing at the machines. The caption states that the spinning shop of the orlon plant was erected in only 40 days.

A short illustrated article from China Pictorial (1965) about the Chingwei Textile Machinery Plant, built during China's First Five-Year Plan. It reports that the plant's machines equipped 162 cotton mills, and that it produced an automatic shuttle-changing silk loom and equipment for making viscose, nylon and vinylon fibres. Photographs show the plant building, installation of a viscose filament spinning machine, spinneret manufacture and two engineers.

A 1966 China Pictorial photo-article on the Hsiangfan Cotton Textile Mill in Hupeh Province, which grew from a handicraft workshop with 17 hand looms into a modernized mill. It tells, in the political language of the period, how workers saved materials, rebuilt after a 1961 gale, and learned to run over 100 new looms. Photographs show looms, a heald-drawing device, a bleaching and dyeing shop, and cloth inspection.

A first-person account, narrated by Pu Fu-ti of the Wusih No. 1 State Cotton Mill, of her working life as a textile worker in China. She describes child labour and harsh conditions in a filature and cotton mill before 1949, then the changes after Liberation: shorter hours, literacy classes, maternity leave, medical care and her political roles. Illustrated with photographs of the mill, historical child labourers and workers studying. The piece is a political-propaganda text from China Pictorial, with no technical weaving content.

A single black-and-white photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, showing the interior of a textile mill. Women workers in light clothing tend machinery near rows of bobbins and warp beams, with spools hanging overhead. The only text is a caption saying the workers are producing quality cotton fabrics.

A short illustrated article from China Pictorial reporting on 1965 as the peak year for textile expansion in China since 1949. It states that 1,400,000 new spindles and matching weaving, printing and dyeing machines began production, and that new mills were built in cotton-producing interior provinces. Photographs show the spinning shop of the Wuhan No. 2 Cotton Textile Mill and the beaming shop of the Szechuan No. 1 Cotton Textile Mill.

A single-page colour photograph from China Pictorial, 1975, No. 2, showing a worker at the Tungfeng Printing and Dyeing Mill. She lifts and drapes a length of pink floral-printed cotton over a long wooden rail. No printed text appears on the page, so the catalog record supplies the context.

A single illustrated page from China Pictorial, 1975, with a photograph of a knitting mill. Rows of large circular knitting machines stand under overhead racks of yarn cones, with two female workers in white aprons at the machines. The only text is a caption saying the variety and quantity of knitwear have increased. The catalog notes place the mill in the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region.

A two-page article from China Pictorial about the revolutionary committee of the Tientsin Jute Textile Mill, written in the political language of the Cultural Revolution. It describes how committee members studied Mao Tse-tung's thought, set a 1969 production target of 15 per cent over 1968, and took part in manual work alongside veteran workers. Photographs show committee members and workers among mill machinery. It contains no technical information on textile production or weaving.