A Victorian pattern book by Thomas R. Ashenhurst, head master of the Bradford Technical School, presenting over 7,000 numbered weave patterns for textile fabrics. The patterns are printed as small black-and-white drawdowns and grouped by the number of ends in the repeat, from 7 up to 16, with a draft at the start of each series. A preface and introduction explain how the patterns are classified and indexed. They also show how to combine them, for example in stripes that put one pattern in the ground and another in the stripe, by using straight and broken drafts on the heralds. Cross-references under each pattern link related patterns, and many are based on ordinary twills.

A comprehensive late-Victorian textbook on power-loom weaving and cloth analysis by Thomas R. Ashenhurst, a Bradford Technical College textile head master. Fourteen lectures cover winding, warping, beaming, drafting, plain weaving, beat-up, picking, shuttle box motions, shedding (tappets, dobbies), take-up and let-off motions, Jacquards and harnesses, card cutting, loom adjuncts, special looms (lappet, webbing, carpet, plush), and cloth dissection and testing. It is heavily illustrated with engraved mechanical diagrams of loom mechanisms, and has period advertisements from loom and bobbin makers at the front and back.

Fifth edition of Ashenhurst's treatise on the arithmetic of textile manufacture and the relationship between yarn size and cloth structure. The first part covers yarn counts in the cotton, worsted, silk, linen and woollen systems, doubling and mixing yarns, twist, sett systems, and calculating the weight and cost of warp, weft and finished fabric, including striped and checked patterns. The second part treats the structure of fabrics: thread diameters, balance of plain and twilled cloths, adjusting ends and picks per inch when changing pattern, counts or weight, with tables of yarn diameters. Appendices on cloth structure add further worked examples and some small twill drawdowns. Advertisements and a design paper price list appear at the front and back.