A 1914 technical manual by H. Nisbet on the preparation of grey (plain) cotton warps for the loom, in the Textile Manufacturer series. It covers cop and bobbin winding, knots and mechanical knotters, beam warping machines, cylinder-drying slasher (tape) sizing machines, and air-drying sizing machines. Also treated are sizing-room design, ventilation and humidifying, wages and productiveness data, and a chapter on looming (automatic warp-drawing, twisting, leasing and tying). The book is heavily illustrated with mechanical line drawings and ends with an index and manufacturers' advertisements.

A 1912 technical manual on the construction, setting, timing and management of tappet and dobby power looms, written by a teacher of weaving at Huddersfield-area technical institutes. Nine chapters cover loom classification and driving, the going part and timing, tappet and dobby shedding, picking, shuttle-box and wefting-plan mechanisms, let-off, take-up and auxiliary motions such as stop-motions, temples and selvage formation. It is illustrated with many line drawings and includes faults and remedies drawn from the author's experience, plus a small number of weave and selvage drafts.

A review by Roberts Beaumont, a professor of textile industries at the Yorkshire College, of the woven fabrics shown at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It is organized into parts on general considerations, woollens and worsteds, cottons and linens, and silks, with an appendix arguing that the fair holds lessons for British manufacturers. The text compares British, American, French, German and Japanese exhibits and names many firms. It has 44 illustrations of designs and sketches of woven samples, including sectional weaving plans (point-paper designs) for extra-weft, velvet, pile and figured silk fabrics. The scan ends with advertisements from loom and textile machinery makers.