An 1838 magazine article on American cotton culture and its link to the currency question, drawn from the Secretary of the Treasury's report on cotton. It sketches the introduction of upland and sea-island cotton in South Carolina and Georgia and the effect of Eli Whitney's saw-gin of 1793. Most of the text covers cotton price swings, the Bank of England, the Bank of the United States, the Specie Circular, the suspension of specie payments, and the panics of 1825 and 1837. The author defers the history of cotton manufacture to later issues.

A one-page notice in the United States Democratic Review (1846) of the Harper & Brothers book on the history of silk, cotton, linen, wool and other fibrous substances, including observations on spinning, dyeing and weaving and the pastoral life of the ancients. The reviewer comments on the commercial and political importance of cotton, using the defense of New Orleans as an example, and on the early struggles of textile manufactures under military governments and aristocracies. It is a general appreciation of the book and gives no technical weaving detail.

A short review notice from the United States Democratic Review (November) of Mrs. Ann H. Stephens's book on crochet, fancy knitting and needlework, published by Garrett & Co., New York. The reviewer praises its illustrations of crochet designs on tinted paper, its full instructions and technical terms, and an included essay on the history of needlework.

An 1846 magazine article, a review of Harper & Brothers' 'History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and other Fibrous Substances', surveying the history of the wool, silk, cotton and linen industries from antiquity to the 1840s. It argues from a free-trade viewpoint that protective tariffs and monopolies held back manufacturing, using the histories of silk in Europe and Spitalfields, linen in Ireland, wool in England and cotton in Britain and the United States. It includes statistical tables of raw material consumption, cotton mills in the US, and British exports. It does not deal with weaving technique.

A short book notice from the United States Democratic Review (1851) about the monthly journal The Plough, The Loom, and The Anvil, edited by J. S. Skinner of Philadelphia. The reviewer praises the journal's general usefulness but criticizes its support for protective tariffs, associated with Henry C. Carey. It has no technical textile content.