A blank printed return envelope from Union Loom Works of Boonville, New York, with a boxed place for a 2-cent stamp and a printed return address. The left side has dashed lines for a customer to write a name, street address, post office, R.F.D. and box number, and state. It appears to be a business reply envelope sent out to customers, probably for orders or inquiries.

A one-page advertising card from The Pendleton Shop Handweaving Studio in Sedona, Arizona, offering blank cards for handweavers to use as weaving recipe cards or postcards. They cost $2.00 per hundred postpaid in the U.S., cash with order, in white or ivory stock with brown ink. The card has a brown line illustration of a weaving tool and a ball of yarn.

A one-page sales letter dated July 15, 1929, from The Melliand, Inc., New York, soliciting subscriptions to the trade journal The Melliand. It accompanied the July issue and invites textile firms to subscribe via an enclosed postal card, with invoice to follow. It is signed by Dr. E. Schwarz, Vice-President.

A blank two-sided subscription order card and business reply mail card for American Fabrics magazine, addressed to its New York office. It lists subscription rates of $12 for one year, $20 for two years and $30 for three years in the U.S., its possessions and Canada, with an added $3 per year for other countries. It includes fields for name, position, firm, type of business, address and payment method.

A one-page memo-style subscription invoice from The Melliand, a technical journal for the textile industries published in New York. It is addressed to R. Smith at F. Schmacher & Co., Waverly Mill, Paterson, N.J., and bills one copy at $2.50 (monthly). It carries the journal's slogans and standard terms and contains no technical or weaving content.

A one-page printed receipt dated September 8, 1979, acknowledging payment of fourteen dollars from Mrs. M. Mingen. The payment covers a run of numbered items, 109 through 116, presumably issues of a periodical, and the form carries a 'The Weavers Journal' rubber stamp. A decorative lace-pattern strip runs down the left edge.

A blank one-page subscription order form for Baldwin's Textile Designer, issued by publishers Baldwin & Pickford of Brasher Falls, New York. It gives the price ($2.00 per year, or one dollar for six months), accepted payment methods, and blanks for date, length of subscription, address, remarks and amount enclosed.

A two-sided reply postcard from The Melliand, Inc., of the Woolworth Building, New York, for ordering a subscription to the journal The Melliand in 1929. The form offers 1-, 6- and 3-month subscription options and billing choices, including $2.50 per month, with blanks for name, firm, position and address. The reverse is the pre-addressed reply side.

A one-page 1947 advertisement from Logemann Brothers Co. of Milwaukee for industrial baling presses used in textile plants. It describes yarn balers, open balers, power box balers and hydraulic balers, covering features, bale sizes and toggle versus hydraulic operation. Four photographs show the press types.

A one-sheet advertising card from Robin and Russ Handweavers of Santa Barbara, California, promoting a guide book called Tour and Shop, priced at $2.00 postpaid. The guide lists mills and factories selling seconds, studios and shops of craftspeople, and folk festivals, fairs and craft events across the United States. The card includes a mail-order form.

Two-page advertising card from Robin and Russ Handweavers of Santa Barbara, California, promoting Cash's woven name tapes for marking clothing, with sample styles, prices by quantity, and NO-SO cement. It includes a mail-order form and a tear-off renewal slip for subscribers of Warp and Weft ($2.75). The second page also advertises Cashsaver printed Teletags, sew-on or iron-on.

A two-page order form from American Fabrics Magazine, dated September 1962, offering back issues at $3.00 each and 22 reprints, portfolios, charts and books. Items include fabric sample folios (India Madras, British regimental silks, batik), color and silk charts, poetry volumes by Paul Reps, and reference books on textiles, ornament, silk screen and weave structure, including Oelsner's Handbook of Weaves. It ends with the AF Encyclopedia of Textiles and an order blank.

A two-page 1930 promotional subscription card from The Melliand, an English-language textile technical journal published in New York. It offers a free copy of the March 1930 Index Number to those who subscribe for a year starting April 1930, and includes an acceptance form with billing options. The second page reprints testimonials from American textile firms and has a postage-paid reply card.

A one-page Houghton Mifflin advertisement and order form for the book Careers for Women, compiled and edited by Catherine Filene. It describes the 600-page volume covering 160 occupations open to women and lists a partial set of chapters with their authors. One listed chapter, 'The Textile Field as a Career for Women' by Mary Schenck Woolman, is the only textile-related item.

A one-page letter dated January 1995 from Mary Pendleton to subscribers of The Looming Arts. She announces that the issue is the last under a subscription model, because she wants to be free of publishing deadlines. Subscribers will get refunds as back issues, checks or postage stamps. Future limited-edition issues, possibly with more fabric samples, will be announced in weaving magazine classifieds. She also says she still takes students and sells Navajo weaving yarns and supplies from her studio.

A mailing envelope from Union Loom Works, Inc., of Boonville, New York, used to send a catalog. It carries a printed return address with a postmaster's request for return if undelivered in ten days, a 3-cent stamp, and an address to Mrs. Lenny Countryman, R.F.D. 3, Youngsville, N.Y. It contains no weaving instructions or drafts.

A two-sided order form and monthly payment agreement from Union Loom Works of Boonville, New York, dated January 6, 1927. It lists reduced cash prices and Pay-As-You-Weave installment terms for the Union Custom Loom ($49.50 cash) and Union Special Loom ($39.50 cash), each sold with 10 yards of warp and accessories. It also covers shipping options, references, a 10-day trial guarantee, and the purchaser's credit information.

A single scanned postal cover (envelope) bearing the oval return imprint of the James Hunter Machine Co., North Adams, Massachusetts. It is postmarked North Adams, Aug. 4, 1911, carries a two-cent stamp, and is addressed to Norton Company in Worcester, Mass. It contains no text beyond the imprint, postmark and address.

A collection of Singer Manufacturing Co. advertising trade cards from the "American Singer Series" and "North American Song Birds" series. Each card has a chromolithographed songbird with a natural-size egg on one side, and a bird description paired with Singer advertising on the other. Birds include the brown thrasher, song sparrow, mockingbird, meadow lark, bobolink, cardinal, catbird, orchard oriole, rose-breasted grosbeak, scarlet tanager and yellow-breasted chat. The advertising covers portable and library-table electric sewing machines, the sewing motor, needles, oil, attachments (binding, hemming, tucking, shirring), the stocking darner and Singer Shop service.

A single scanned sheet showing two Diamond Dyes advertising trade cards. The top card depicts a teacher and seated women in period dress watching brightly colored dyed cloth being hung on a line, with a dye tub and a box of Diamond Dyes on a table, and carries a caption about using the dyes to refresh dresses economically. The lower card promotes the ease of dyeing with Diamond Dyes. Useful as an example of 19th-century commercial dye advertising.

A one-page magazine advertisement from Comfort, February 1925, for the Auto Knitter Hosiery Co. of Buffalo, N.Y. It is written as a wife's letter to her husband, telling how she earns extra money knitting wool socks at home on the Auto Knitter machine, which the company buys back at a guaranteed rate. It includes a photograph, a pie-chart diagram of how the Auto Knitter dollar is divided, and a coupon for a free book.

A one-page advertisement for J. & P. Coats' Colors, a line of colored sewing thread. A large stylized letter C encloses the words "Coats' Colors" and is surrounded by a list of available shade names such as Sage, Myrtle, Old Gold, Navy Blue, Terra Cotta and Dregs of Wine. It is useful as a record of late 19th-century thread color names and thread marketing.

Two catalog pages from the 1908 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue No. 117 advertising machine-made embroidered edgings and insertions. Page 1 lists cambric edges, cambric insertions, colored cambric embroidery and Swiss edges by catalog number, width and price per yard. Page 2 introduces a new 5-yard packaged embroidery line, with cambric, Swiss and nainsook edgings priced per package and postage costs listed.

A one-page trade advertisement for the Atwood Machine Co. promoting its silk machinery. It shows a banner reading 'Silk Machinery' over an illustration of silk cocoons and a spool or bobbin. It gives the works and home office in Stonington, Connecticut, and a New York showroom at 68 Grand Street. The company is stated as incorporated in New Jersey.

A one-page advertisement promoting The Melliand, a monthly textile industry journal. It argues that the magazine gives mill managers and textile workers specialized, authoritative information on machinery, materials and methods. It also advertises the cloth-bound monthly issues, the complete annual index, and a subscription price of under 9 cents a day.

A one-page bilingual English and Chinese advertisement for the Society of Chemical Industry in Basle (CIBA), Swiss makers of artificial indigo, aniline dyes and pharmaceuticals. It lists the company's representative in Shanghai, its agents in Tientsin and Hongkong, and its works in Switzerland, Poland, Russia, England, France and the U.S.A. The Chinese text gives a short company description and urges buyers to look for the CIBA trade mark.

Two catalog pages from the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue No. 117 (page 1018 onward) advertising the lace department. Page 1 lists machine-made laces and insertions by type (pillow, everlasting, German and English torchon, linen torchon, cluny, antique, Valenciennes, Baby Irish, Oriental), with catalog numbers, widths and prices per yard or dozen yards. Page 2 advertises boxed lace assortments of 144 and 288 yards, sold to customers for house-to-house canvassing.

A two-page advertising flyer from Union Loom Works of Boonville, New York, announcing price increases on the Union Home Loom, a small rug loom for family weaving, which rises from $9.90 to $17.90. It also lists prices for the larger Union Special ($39.50) and Union Custom ($49.50) looms, sold threaded with 10 yards of free warp, and mentions a limited-time premium offer. The flyer notes that magazine advertisements may still quote the old Home Loom price.

Four-page advertising flyer from Union Loom Works of Boonville, New York, selling floor looms for home rag-rug and carpet weaving as a money-making business. It describes the Union Custom Loom (42 inches wide, $39.50 sale price) and the Union Special Loom (one yard wide, $29.50), and mentions a Home Loom at $9.90. The sales text stresses weaving rugs and carpets from rags and waste material, and illustrations show the looms and finished rugs. Prices are guaranteed until July 1, 1921.

A two-page announcement from Harriet Tidball of the Shuttle Craft Guild, dated October 1956, that the monthly Shuttle Craft Bulletin will be replaced in January 1957 by a full magazine called Shuttle Craft. It lists the planned features (departments for four-harness, multiple-harness and two-harness weavers, book reviews by Boris Veren, a tested and recommended sources section, and reprints of Mary Atwater articles), the subscription prices for standard and Portfolio editions, and the move of the Guild's address to Monterey, California. Page 2 is an order form for subscriptions and back issues of Bulletins and Styles sheets, with details on advertising in the planned Classified Directory of Services.

A printed billhead (invoice) dated 27 September 1907 from C. Graesers Wwe. & Sohn, a mechanical weaving mill for coloured goods (Mechanische Buntweberei) in Langensalza. It is addressed to Ernst Gregor Rudolf in Mittelhausen, Löbau, and lists a bale of woven goods with measurements, prices and totals, followed by payment terms. The letterhead has engraved views of the mill buildings and a company crest. The second page is a mostly empty ruled ledger-style page.

A single buff business envelope, front and back, printed with the Barbour's Irish Flax Thread three-ply trademark (a hand holding a flax plant) and an advertising line urging users to check that linen thread carries the trademark. It was sent by Mary E. Bradford of Roxbury Station, Massachusetts, to Mrs. James Whitaker in Upper Troy, New York, and is postmarked Troy, N.Y., July 28, 1906. It is useful as an example of early twentieth-century thread advertising.

A printed postal card from the McMillan Fur & Wool Co. of Minneapolis, addressed to W. Bickford of North Belgrade, Maine. It asks the recipient to give a correct name and address, say whether he handles furs or related goods and wants the company's circular, and name others in the trade. The card has blank forms for replies and decorative vignettes beside the header.

A single page from Posselt's Textile Journal (December 1918) that advertises Posselt's "Dictionary of Weaves," a collection of weaves taken from market fabrics in cotton, wool, worsted and silk. The page describes Part 1 (over 2000 weaves for four to nine harness), gives the price of $2.00 in cloth and gold binding, and carries the publisher's address in Philadelphia. It includes sample drawdown grids for sixteen-harness (16 x 16) and twelve-harness (12 x 24, 12 x 12) weaves.

A single-page advertisement from Posselt's Textile Journal promoting its monthly serial "Dictionary of Weaves." It describes the Dictionary as a collection of weaves taken from market fabrics in cotton, wool, worsted and silk, planned to reach over 30,000 practical weaves for mill designers and superintendents. The page carries two sample drawdown grids, one for sixteen harness (16 x 16) and one for eleven harness (11 x 33 and 11 x 11).

A single page from Posselt's Textile Journal, February 1919, that combines an advertisement for Posselt's "Dictionary of Weaves" with sample twelve-harness weave drawdowns (12 x 36 and 12 x 12 repeats). The text says the dictionary collects weaves taken from market fabrics in cotton, wool, worsted and silk, and that Part 1 has over 2000 weaves for four to nine harnesses. It gives the price ($2.00, cloth and gold binding) and the publisher's Philadelphia address.

A one-page advertisement from the May 1919 issue of Posselt's Textile Journal promoting E. A. Posselt's Dictionary of Weaves. It describes the work as a collection of weaves taken from market fabrics in cotton, wool, worsted and silk, planned to reach over 30,000 weaves. Part 1 is offered as over 2000 weaves from four to nine harness, bound in cloth and gold for $2.00. The page includes two large ten-harness sample weave drawdowns with repeat sizes of 10 x 20 and 10 x 10.

A two-page promotional brochure from Hand-Skill Looms, Inc. of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, advertising its New Improved Hand Loom, Model 15-N, a portable four-harness loom with an aluminum tubing frame. It lists features such as a head motion that replaces treadles, friction let-off with cloth take-up, a warp beam holding 30-90 yards, a 38-inch working width, and a weight under 35 pounds. It also lists magazine coverage and suggested uses including home, school, therapy and textile sampling.

A two-page promotional letter and order form from the editors of Loom Music, a monthly handweaving bulletin first issued in January 1944. It lists subscription terms for 1962 ($5.00 for ten issues, $3.50 per year for back-issue reprints, 50 cents for a sample copy), says the bulletin has no ties to suppliers, and introduces the editors Ethel Henderson and Mary Sandin. Page 2 is a blank order form with spaces to name prospective subscribers.

A single-page letterhead from Adam, Sons & Co., wool merchants in Leith, England, dated 1884. The page carries an engraved illustration of a large multi-storey mill or warehouse building with a central pediment and cupola, a carriage archway, and horse-drawn carriages and figures in the street. No legible text could be read from the scan.

A one-page notice from Terrace Textures announcing that the weaving lesson series will not be published during 1958, and that earlier lessons remain available individually or in groups at special reduced prices through January 1958. It also supplies a correction: the omitted pattern threading for the Tote Bag in Basic Design #9, given as a four-shaft threading diagram that matches the warp of lesson #1.

A blank printed order form addressed to James Chittick of New York City for copies of his book "Silk Manufacturing and its Problems." It gives the price as $2.50 per copy, or $2.80 by mail with 30 cents for postage and packing, and has blanks for the quantity, the buyer's name and address, and an enclosed money order.

A one-page price list and description of the Ad-a-Harness portable folding floor looms (Model CP11) made by L. W. Macomber of Saugus, Massachusetts. It describes the construction, push-up rising shed mechanism, and standard equipment of the 16-inch 4-harness and 20-inch 4- or 6-harness looms, and gives prices, weights, dimensions (open and folded), and prices for add-on harness units, reeds, and heddles. Two photographs show the loom open and folded.

A one-page private mailing (reply) card from Atlas Electric Devices Co., Inc. of Chicago, used to request a bulletin on the Fade-Ometer, a lightfastness testing machine. The card argues that misrepresenting color fastness harms goodwill and sales, and promotes the slogan 'Guaranteed Fast to Light by a Fade-Ometer Test'. It includes blank lines for the date, address, and attention of the sender.

Two-page advertising leaflet from the Proctor Teneriffe Lace Wheel Company of Viroqua, Wisconsin, promoting the Proctor Patent Wheel and Square, hard rubber forms for making Teneriffe and Filet Guipure lace. It lists prices (wheel 25 cents, square 50 cents, design booklet 25 cents, complete outfit $1.00), the sizes of medallions possible, materials needed, suggested uses for the lace, and the company's return policy. A finished round Teneriffe medallion is illustrated.

A collection of American sewing machine trade cards, mostly from The American Singer Series, issued by the Singer Manufacturing Co. Each chromolithographed bird card (robin, bobolink, grosbeak, orioles, tanager, thrasher, wren, wood thrush, cardinal and others) has a reverse side with a short natural-history note and a Singer advertisement. The ads cover the Singer 20 child's chain-stitch machine, the Singerlight electric lamp, electric sewing motors, the treadle machines, the needle threader and stocking darner, and a pitch to domestic art teachers. The set also includes cards for the White and Household sewing machines, one of them a puzzle card.

A single chromolithographed Victorian-era trade card advertising Chadwick's Six Cord Machine Spool Cotton. It shows a girl in a striped dress with red ruffles seated on a large spool labeled No. 60, 200 yards, with the slogan "My Mother Prefers Chadwick's Spool Cotton." The card carries a note referring the reader to the reverse side of the slate.

A one-page advertising trade card for J. R. Leeson and Co., Boston, sole importers of real Scotch three-cord linen thread on 200-yard spools for family use. The card pictures two spools, one black and one cream with a stag emblem and the name Paisley, and claims the thread is smooth as silk, soft as cotton and more durable than either.

A single chromolithographed trade card advertising Potter's Spool Silk, with the printed slogan "Potter's Spool Silk is the best made." The illustration shows children at play in an ornamental setting, including a boy hanging from a tree branch and two children balancing on a pedestal with spools. It is a piece of Victorian-era advertising ephemera for sewing thread.

A single chromolithographed trade card advertising Star Braid, associated with Fleming's yarns. The tall vertical card shows two winged cherubs at the top holding a green pole, with a young woman in a blue headdress and a young man in a feathered cap below. The printed text is minimal and partly illegible.