An instructional handbook on English willow and cane basket-making from Pitman's Handwork Series. It covers materials and their preparation, tools, and terminology, then walks through slewed, fitched, and randed work, with chapters on round, oval, and square baskets, borders, handles, covers, skein handles, and plaited hasps and nooses. It is illustrated with numerous figures and photographs of finished baskets and construction steps, and ends with a conclusion and glossary.

A comprehensive technical textbook on the design and manufacture of dress, blouse, and costume fabrics in silk, artificial silk, cotton, linen, worsted and woollen. It covers the commercial and industrial side of the dress trade, yarn structure (including thrown, spun and artificial silk and fancy folded yarns), weave elements and point-paper plans, and striped, checked, spotted, mosaic and figured designs. Later chapters treat pile, curl, lappet and gauze structures. It is illustrated with over 700 figures, including many weave drafts and photographs of fabric specimens.

An introductory book on dyes in the Pitman 'Common Commodities and Industries' series, written for non-technical readers. It covers the history of the dye industry, the discovery and manufacture of coal-tar dyes, the textile fibres, fabric preparation (scouring, bleaching, mercerizing), mordanting, dyeing machinery, dyeing methods for cotton, wool, silk and union fabrics, special methods such as indigo and Turkey red, fastness testing, and textile printing. It is illustrated with photographs of industrial dyeing and printing machinery and chemical structure diagrams, and includes manufacturer advertisements and a publisher's book list.

A volume in Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries series on the knitting industry, covering the history of hand and machine knitting, yarn preparation, the principles of knitted fabrics, hand-knitting machines, and the manufacture of hosiery, underwear, fancy fabrics, outer garments and gloves. It closes with trimming and finishing processes such as scouring, milling, pressing, singeing and drying. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs of machines, needles, stitch structures and fabric swatches. The scan includes the publisher's advertising pages and dust cover.

A 1920s Pitman "Common Commodities and Industries" volume on the manufacture of velvet, velveteen and corduroy, written for general readers and trade people. It traces the history of fustians and velvets from the Arabs and Lancashire to the modern industry, then covers cotton materials, spinning, doubling and weaving of weft-pile cloth, hand and machine cutting of the pile, dyeing and finishing, and distribution and tariffs. A chapter treats corduroy, moleskin, beaverteen and related fustians. It includes cross-section diagrams of plain and twill-back velvet and of corduroy, photographs of looms, cutting knives and cutting machines, an index, and publisher's advertisements.

A 1922 revised edition of J. A. Hunter's 'Wool: From the Raw Material to the Finished Product', part of Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries series. It follows wool from sheep breeds and fleece types through marketing, scouring, combing, spinning (worsted and woollen), cloth making and finishing, to textile testing, finance, trade combinations, by-products, industry workforce, and wool in the First World War. Illustrated with photographs of flocks, mills, scouring, spinning mules and weaving sheds, plus flow diagrams, and a glossary; the book is an industrial overview rather than a weaving manual.

A technical introduction to the worsted industry from the Common Commodities and Industries series, following wool from raw fibre to finished yarn and cloth. Chapters cover the industry's growth and organization, choice of wool, scouring, carding, gilling, combing (Noble, Lister, French and Heilmann combs), drawing, spinning, yarn finishing, and weaving preparation. It has many diagrams and photographs of machinery, tables of machine settings, and a glossary. The weaving section covers warping, drawing-in, the loom, and a twill design with tappet and Jacquard card cutting.