Encyclopedia entries on cotton and cotton mills from Pantalogia (1819). They cover cotton as a commodity, its sources and grades, and the mechanization of spinning (Hargreaves' jenny, Arkwright's water frame and carding engines, the mule). They also describe New Lanark mills, the Lancashire process from picking and carding through weaving, bleaching, printing and cutting, a contrast with Indian hand methods, and statistics on British cotton imports and employment.

An encyclopedia-style article on linen from the 1819 Pantalogia. It covers the history of linen from Egypt, Greece and Rome to Britain, and the division of labor in flax growing, preparation, spinning, weaving, bleaching and finishing. It focuses on the Irish linen industry, with Ulster spinning fineness and statistics on cloth and yarn exports from Ireland in the 1700s.

A two-page encyclopedia entry on the loom from Pantalogia (1819), drawing on Gregory's Dictionary. It defines the loom and describes a silk or plain-weaving loom with cloth beam, yarn beam, lambs (heddles), treadles, reed frame, and shuttle driven by pickers, and explains the weaving operations step by step. It also describes the simple Indian loom set up under a tree, and includes an engraved figure of the loom.