A four-page tracking chart and checklist for the project of scanning the Ciba Review, dated 17 May 2007. Page 1 is a grid of issue numbers by year and month from 1937 to 1975, with a legend for scanning status. Pages 2 to 4 list each issue by number, date and title, with notes on location (such as CWLL or Griswold) and status (pending, archived, assigned). It is an administrative finding aid, not a textile article.

Issue No. 12 of the Ciba Review, devoted to textiles and dyeing in the ancient Near East. Articles cover the history and geography of Babylon and Egypt, Egyptian linen and dress (spinning, looms, woven and embroidered royal garments, sandals), Babylonian and Assyrian wool and dress, and the colours and pigments of the ancient Orient. Shorter items on board (card) weaving, Egyptian palettes, hieroglyph decipherment, Babylon excavators, parchment and the Babylonian chronology follow. Illustrated with reliefs, tomb paintings, statues, and models of Egyptian looms; it contains no weaving drafts, and the issue carries Ciba dye advertisements.

Issue 13 of Ciba Review (September 1938) on the emblems of medieval and later trade guilds, with emphasis on textile trades such as weavers, dyers, wool and silk guilds. G. De Francesco surveys guild symbolism, seals, banners, drinking vessels, coffin plates, stained glass, triptychs and hostel signs from Florence, Prague, Basle and other cities. Further articles treat the painted emblems of the Venetian scuole, artistic trade marks and labels of Italian and Dutch silk and cloth makers, English livery company emblems and trade cards, and guild badges of weavers and dyers in the Low Countries. The issue also includes Ciba dye advertisements, a page of Oriental dye labels and a short technical note on oxygen in processing vegetable fibres.

Issue No. 14 of the Ciba Review (Basle, October 1938) is devoted to medieval and early modern cloth making in Flanders. A. L. Gutmann's five main essays cover Flemish geography, the role of the cloth industry in Flemish history and in the weavers' revolts, the social organization of the crafts (merchants, weavers, fullers, croppers, dyers), the distribution of the industry across monasteries, towns and the countryside, and technical peculiarities of cloth finishing and dyeing. A final essay treats Flemish cloth in art and fashion. The issue also has a Historical Gleanings section (Flemish weavers in England, trade treaties, fairs, guild and merchant anecdotes), a short scientific note on the tensile strength of natural fibres, and dye-industry advertisements. It is illustrated with period paintings, miniatures, maps and heraldry.

Ciba Review No. 16 (December 1938) is a themed issue on the history and development of the loom, with most of the articles by G. Schaefer. They cover the basic principle of shed formation, the looms of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the medieval hand-loom and draw-loom, mechanization (Kay's fly-shuttle, Cartwright, Vaucanson, Jacquard), and Asian looms. W. Born contributes a piece on weaving in Japanese art, and a Historical Gleanings section has short items on Turkish looms, John Kay, Edmund Cartwright and the loom of the ancient Hebrews. The issue is illustrated with engravings, vase paintings, reliefs and diagrams of looms, and also carries Ciba dye advertisements and technical notes on dyeing.

Issue No. 21 of the Ciba Review (Basle, May 1939) is devoted to weaving and dyeing in North Africa, with articles by Jean Gallotti. It opens with a survey of Egyptian textile crafts from the Pharaohs and Coptic tapestry through the Islamic period. It then covers Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: vertical and horizontal looms, flidjs, mats of esparto and palm fibre, knotted and tapestry-like rugs (Rabat, Saian, Uled-Ben-Seba, Kairuan), silk weaving and braid, and traditional plant, insect and mineral dyes. The issue is illustrated with photographs and a map of textile centres, and also contains Ciba dye advertisements, short technical notes on dyeing, and Historical Gleanings on textile patterns and the evil eye and on silk-growing in Prussia.