An author index to the first two volumes of The Weaver (1936-1937), compiled by Kate Van Cleve. Page 1 lists authors alphabetically from Allen to Howells, with article titles, issue dates, volume, number and page. Page 2 continues with authors from Johnson to Walters, followed by a title-based listing of selected articles with their authors. Contributors include Mary M. Atwater, Veva N. Carr, Emily N. Goodwin, Elmer Hickman and Esther Gallup.

A four-page tracking chart and checklist for the project of scanning the Ciba Review, dated 17 May 2007. Page 1 is a grid of issue numbers by year and month from 1937 to 1975, with a legend for scanning status. Pages 2 to 4 list each issue by number, date and title, with notes on location (such as CWLL or Griswold) and status (pending, archived, assigned). It is an administrative finding aid, not a textile article.

A three-page cumulative subject index to The Master Weaver covering volumes 13-18 (1958-1960), issues 37 to 54. Entries are alphabetical and give issue number and page, on topics such as twills, Bronson lace, crackle, summer and winter, net weaves, swivel, rugs, tapestry, warping and loom maintenance. It ends with a note pointing to earlier indexes (MW 18 and MW 36) and advice on binding back issues.

A one-page grid chart tracking which issues of the periodical Loomcraft have been completed, probably as part of the archive's scanning or indexing work. Rows run by year from 1956 to 1998 and columns by month, with cells giving volume/issue numbers (volumes 1 through 9). Cyan marks completed issues and black marks completed volumes, and the rows from 1978 on are empty. A legend is dated 7 June 2006.

A single-page colour-coded tracking chart of the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin, listing each volume from 1924 (v01) to 1964 (v41) by month or issue number. It shows which issues were not issued, which exist, and which were marked done or finished, apparently for a digitization or transcription project. Early volumes are numbered consecutively (001-067), later ones are listed by month, and some later volumes use P-prefixed codes. The chart has no weaving content.

A one-page subject index to The Weaver, compiled by Kate Van Cleve, listing articles alphabetically from American Yarns through Seamless Afghans and Bags. Each entry gives the title, author, issue date, volume, number and page. It covers issues from January 1936 through October 1937, with topics such as the Rosengang threading, laid-in technique, overshot on six harnesses, tablet-woven rugs, Navajo weaving, Scandinavian art weaving, Mexican lace weaving, and Mary Atwater's Questions and Answers column.

A one-page tracking chart for the periodical Warp and Weft, laid out as a grid of years (1948 onward) and volume numbers against issue numbers 1-14. Cells are marked with contributor initials (CL, REG, JC, JS, JPC) or left blank or grey to show which issues have been located, which are digitized, and which volumes are complete. A legend explains the color coding, and the chart is dated 19 May 2007.

A 150-page printed bibliography, dated September 10, 2002, listing books and monographs on weaving held in or compiled for the Griswold collection. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author, beginning with anonymous works, and give title, place, publisher and date. It covers handweaving instruction, industrial weaving and textile technology, exhibition catalogs, regional and ethnographic studies, and historical trade documents, in many languages.

A ten-page tabular bibliography, dated 5/21/2006, listing publications cited in the monographs of the Griswold archive (partial list). Each entry gives author, title, the monograph code where it is mentioned, and publisher details. Sources cover mathematics (fractals, cellular automata, Boolean algebra, continued fractions, L-systems, integer sequences) alongside handweaving drafting texts, algebraic draft-writing articles, name drafts, and web resources.

A four-page bibliography extracted from Sandra F. Dickey's 1964 UC Berkeley master's thesis on knotless netting (looping, single-element structures) in South America. It lists about 50 works from 1883 to 1964, mostly on Andean archaeology and textiles (Peru, Paracas, Nazca, Ancon) and on ethnography of South American peoples (Chaco, Guiana, Araucanians). Works by Bird, O'Neale, Engel, Métraux and Nordenskiöld are heavily represented, along with Davidson's 1935 study of knotless netting.

An annotated bibliography by Brian Lemin (December 1998) of books and articles dealing with lace-making bobbins, plus spangles, beads and bobbin making. It is organized into sections: historical English works, continental bobbins, spangles and beads, and bobbin making (mostly woodturning magazine articles). Each entry gives a citation and the compiler's candid comments on its value; it closes with a request for additions and the author's contact details.

A 2002 work-in-progress bibliographic and biographical essay by Ralph Griswold on E. A. Posselt (1858-1921), Austrian-born textile author, teacher and publisher in Philadelphia. It summarizes his career and lists his two book series (Posselt's Textile Library and Hand Books of the Textile Industry) plus other titles, with editions, projected but unpublished volumes, his Textile Journal, and notes on availability. Appendices give full short and long citations, sample illustrations from the books (including a weave and Jacquard figures), and sample advertisements from Posselt's books.

A 13-page tabular list, dated 5/21/2006, of Ralph Griswold's monographs on weave design. Each row gives the author, title, a short code in brackets, the other monographs that mention it, and the publication year or venue. It covers the multi-part series on code drafting, L-systems, T-sequences, drawdown automata, crackle weave, block substitution, number drafting and others. It works as a finding aid for how the monographs refer to one another.

A bibliography of Nellie Sargent Johnson, a handweaving author and designer of the Sears Hearthside looms. It lists writings about her, her monthly Handweaving News articles from 1933 to 1951, self-published monographs and loom booklets, Handweaving News compilation volumes, and articles in The Weaver and The Shuttle. Information was provided by Nancy M. McKenna.

A four-page annotated bibliography of English-language references on hand weaving, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics in a revised edition dated April 1953. It lists about 30 books with author, page count, publisher and address, and year, plus a short description of each. A second section covers pamphlets, periodicals and directories such as Handweaver and Craftsman, Craft Horizons and Where to Get What. Topics include beginner manuals, pattern books, Navajo weaving, card and finger weaving, textile design and reed or native-material weaving.

Third edition (1982) of a bibliography of the textile collection at American River College Library in Sacramento, California, which holds the Weavers Collection established in 1976. It lists books and multimedia by subject, with call numbers, authors, titles and imprints. Subjects include basketry, costume, design, dyeing, embroidery, fibers, handicrafts, lace, looms, rugs, spinning, tapestry, textile industry and weaving. It also lists artifacts by country, magazine holdings, a pamphlet file and sample volumes, and closes with a director's epilogue and a weaver's prayer.

A classified bibliography of books on cotton and the cotton industry held in the Franklin Institute Library in 1909. Entries give author, title, place, publisher, date and call number, and are grouped under headings: bleaching, cotton manufacture, cotton fibre, machinery, dyeing, calico printing, mill construction, spinning, textile fabrics, weaving, and periodicals. Sources are English, French, German, Spanish and Finnish, dating from the 18th century to 1908.

A bibliographic checklist of pattern books for lace, embroidery, and related needlework held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1933. Entries are grouped largely by country and period: German model books of the 1520s to 1700s, Italian and French Renaissance lace and embroidery pattern books, and later French, English, Dutch and American titles. Each entry gives author, title, place, printer and date, with asterisks apparently marking facsimile reprints. Entries are keyed to Lotz catalog numbers, and the list ends with an illustrated colophon of the 1524 Schönsperger Modelbuch.

A cumulative author and subject index to the first 70 volumes (1916-1987) of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, compiled by Anne Dahlgren Hecht in 1988. Entries give volume, part and page numbers for articles, authors, book reviews, lectures, exhibitions, obituaries and illustrations, with cross-references. Major subject headings include lace, embroidery, textiles, rugs, tapestry, shawls, spinning and looms. Front matter includes a dedication and acknowledgements, and the final pages carry advertisements.

Issue 6 (April 2005) of Webside, Ralph Griswold's newsletter about the Griswold weaving and lace website (later Handweaving.net). It lists April additions (Collingwood's rug weaving books, Baldwin's woolen cloth treatise, Dolivo-Dobrovolsky's pattern album, early Shuttle-Craft Bulletin, Handweaving News, Handicrafter), and includes reader mail, a piece on bobbin lace as weaving, and notes on special collections and a possible website database. Further articles cover the periodicals section of the site, copyright as it applies to weaving drafts and WIF files (with a WIF excerpt and drawdown), the University of Washington Libraries digital collections (with a Chilkat weaving photograph), and a Lace Corner on filet lace. It ends with a CD list and web links.

A cumulative subject, author, and title index to volumes 27-44 (1943-1960) of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, compiled by Marcia C. Harty and Eugenia Tolmachoff and published in New York in 1962. Entries cite volume and page numbers, with plates and figures, and cover embroidery, lace, tapestry, silk and other textiles, costume, pattern books, and weaving. They also cover places, museums, collectors, and Club lectures and hostesses. It is useful as a finding aid to articles on Russian ecclesiastical embroidery, Formosan, Peruvian, Altai (Pazyryk), Persian and Spanish textiles, Swiss lace patterns, and an 18th-century English weaver's pattern book.

A two-page project index to the periodical The Weaver, compiled by Bill Koepp in March 2004. It lists topics alphabetically (such as Bronson, Dukagang, rosepath, rugs, tapestry, twills, and Scandinavian weaving) with the volume, issue number, and page where each project or article appears. It is useful for locating specific projects across volumes 1 to 7 of the magazine.

A two-page finding aid for the periodical Practical Weaving Suggestions (1940-1971). Page 1 is a color-coded grid of years against issue numbers showing which issues are available on the site, with notes that publication began in 1940, that numbering from 1940 to 1954 is unclear, and that it was quarterly from 1955 to 1971. Page 2 lists the articles available online by date, with author, title and volume/issue, covering topics such as crackle weave, summer and winter, Bronson lace, double weave, rugs, upholstery and ecclesiastical weaving.

A two-page cumulative subject index to the Master Weaver periodical covering issues 19 to 36, published 1955 to 1957 (volumes 7 to 12). Entries give issue number and page, for example 26/1. Topics include weave structures (crackle, overshot, summer and winter, leno, double weaves, twills, satins), designing, drafting, yarn analysis and counts, synthetic fibers, silk, chenille, and velvet rugs.

A six-page bibliography of the weaving writings of Nellie Sargent Johnson, compiled from information supplied by Nancy M. McKenna. It lists works about her, a month-by-month index of her Handweaving News articles from 1933 to 1951, her self-published monographs, booklets for the Sears Hearthside looms, compilations, and articles in The Weaver and The Shuttle. Topics include Spanish weave, crackle, summer and winter, Bronson weaves, Peruvian textiles, brocading, and simple looms.

A short annotated bibliography by Brian Lemin (February 2022) reviewing books that contain useful information on lace bobbins. Entries cover works by Bellerby, Bullock, Freeman, Hopewell, Huetson, the Springetts, Whiting and Wright, with the author's personal comments on each book's coverage, illustrations and value to collectors. He singles out Success to the Lace Pillow by Christine and David Springett as essential for any bobbin collector.

An annotated bibliography by Brian Lemin (July 2020) on lace bobbins, with short evaluative comments on each entry. It lists books, museum catalogues and magazine articles on English bobbins, continental bobbins (French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian), spangles and beads, and the making of bobbins by woodturning, plus a few items on lace social history. Lemin notes it is not a complete bibliography.

A short biographical and bibliographic study by Ralph Griswold of E. A. Posselt (1858-1921), the Austrian-born textile designer, teacher, publisher and editor active in Philadelphia. It reproduces a 1900 biography, lists his two book series and other titles, and discusses projected books that were never published, his Textile Journal, publishers, and where copies can be found. Appendices give short and long titles for 14 books, sample illustrations and advertisements from the books, and a 1890 business letter.

A beginner's how-to article on making a round wicker basket from round reed, from the Minnesota Weaver series 'Of Baskets'. It opens with a short history of basketry and wicker, then lists tools and materials, explains how to prepare the reed, and gives six illustrated construction steps. It also covers adding weavers, shaping bowl and dish forms, variations (double weavers, twining, twill, other fibers and natural materials), two border finishes, finishing, and how to figure spoke length. A bibliography of books on American Indian basketry and a short reading list are included.

A column from the Minnesota Weaver by Mary Temple on frame loom weaving. It opens with a poem, "At the Loom," by Bruce Bart, written for his wife Harriet Bart's University of Minnesota fiber studies degree. Temple then comments on weaving books available through the Guild library and public libraries, mentioning new titles on rigid heddle and frame loom weaving. The column ends with a bibliography of about 40 titles on frame loom weaving, tapestry, rugs, two-harness weaving and fiber art.

Ralph Griswold's bibliographic guide to the textile and weaving publications of the International Correspondence Schools (ICS) of Scranton, Pa. It explains how ICS instruction papers (monographs) were republished in the International Library of Technology and I.C.S. Reference Library book series, and tabulates the textile volumes by series, author and date. It also lists individual monographs with serial numbers, copyright dates and the volumes they appear in, and notes which are available online. Appendices reproduce a typical monograph cover, binder, book spines, ICS logos and buildings, a preface, advice to students, advertisements and a 1903 encyclopedia article on the schools.

Joan Edwards surveys English-language books on embroidery published between 1840 and 1940, sorted into four groups: historical surveys, reference books, books on design and colour, and ephemera. She discusses authors, publishers, editions, pirated American reprints, and how the books reflect changing attitudes toward design versus technique, from Berlin work to the Arts and Crafts movement and modern embroidery. Titles discussed include works by Elizabeth Stone, Miss Lambert, Lady Alford, Caulfeild, Mrs. Christie, May Morris, Lewis F. Day, Mary Hogarth, Mary Thomas and Mrs. Beeton.

A short biographical and bibliographic piece on Luther Hooper (1849-1932), English weaver, designer and author of seven handweaving books. It reprints his brief autobiography covering his early work in illumination, wallpaper design and engraving, and his later silk weaving, tapestry and teaching. It then lists his books with publishers and page counts, notes his 1912 Royal Society of Arts lectures, his illustrations and monogram, his loom designs, and the availability of his works. The last pages show sample illustrations from his books, including a 16-shaft table loom draft, a loom-entering diagram, and a plate of tablet-woven bands.

A short biographical essay by Ralph Griswold on the English weaver, designer and author Luther Hooper (1849-1932). It reprints Hooper's brief autobiography, covering his early work as an illuminator, wallpaper designer and silk-weaving designer, and his later teaching and writing, along with Dorothy Wilkinson's 1960 appreciation of him as a teacher. It also lists his seven books with publication details, his 1912 Royal Society of Arts lectures, his illustrations and monogram, his Hooper looms, and where his works can be found. An appendix reproduces sample illustrations from his books, including a table loom draft, a loom prepared for entering, and a tablet-weaving plate.

Issue of the Needle and Bobbin Club Bulletin (vol. 17, no. 2, 1933). It is dominated by Margaret Harrington Daniels's two-part essay on early printed pattern books (Modelbücher) for lace and embroidery of the 16th and 17th centuries, a review of Arthur Lotz's Bibliographie der Modelbücher. It traces German, Italian, French and English pattern books and their copying across countries, and is illustrated with woodcut title pages, pattern pages and lace and drawnwork made from them. The issue also has a checklist of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's pattern books, Frances Morris's article on the Elephant Medallion silk (East Iran, 10th or 11th century) in the Cooper Union Museum, and Club Notes with a list of officers.

A short article by needle lace artist Aurelia Loveman on the traditional lace 'modes' and 'jours', the small decorative fillings used to relieve large open areas in needle lace. It explains the ring, bar, and picot as basic elements and the seed, chain, and star arrangements for combining them, with line drawings of a chain of rings, rings on festoons, and picoted bars with chained rings. It closes with a quotation from Marian Powys on lace fillings, an author biography, and a bibliography of Carlier, Lovesey, and Powys.

A short illustrated overview by Brian Lemin of English bobbin lace bobbins and their history. It describes the parts of a bobbin and the regional types (East Midlands/Bedfordshire, Honiton, South Bucks, Downton, Malmesbury, hand-carved), with Freeman's classification, inscription types, decoration, dyeing and staining, dating, and identified makers such as the Comptons, Haskins and Abbott. It closes with a conclusion and an annotated bibliography of bobbin and lace books.

Encyclopedia entry on "Kroj" (costume, dress) from Ottův slovník naučný, in Czech. It surveys the history of European fashionable dress from Roman and Byzantine times through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Spanish and French fashions, the French Revolution, and the 19th century. It also covers historical costume in painting and the novel and costume reform in the theatre, and ends with a bibliography of costume histories in German, French, English, Polish, Russian and Czech.

Part II of a two-part introduction to textile conservation for amateur weavers and collectors, covering storage and display. It groups environmental stresses (heat, humidity, dust, light, handling, contact with containers, insects and fungi) and gives practical precautions such as recommended temperature and humidity, avoiding UV light, rolling or padding folds, and moth control. It describes a simple method for mounting small specimens in a frame with two diagrams, and ends with a bibliography and a list of conservation suppliers.

A one-page article from the Minnesota Weaver on how a basket's color, texture, design, shape, and weave carry meaning about its maker, with quotations from Sandra Corrie Newman and George Wharton James on Native American basketry. It is followed by a basketry reading list of about 19 books, mostly on Native American basketry (Pomo, Anasazi, California Indian) plus several on technique and basketry as textile art.

Encyclopedia article on silk moths (Seidenspinner) from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, covering the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori: its appearance, life cycle, spinning glands and cocoon formation. It describes silkworm rearing (egg incubation, feeding, bed changing, spinning huts, cocoon collection), the main diseases (pébrine, flacherie, muscardine, jaundice, wasting), and egg production including Pasteur's cell grainage. It ends with wild silk moths (tussah, oak, ailanthus silk moths) and a bibliography of German, French and Austrian sericulture literature.

An encyclopedia article on the silkworm (Bombyx mori) covering its life cycle, anatomy and silk glands, diseases such as pébrine and muscardine, and the methods of rearing it on mulberry leaves. It also surveys wild silkworms used for tussah silk in Asia and native North American silk-producing moths, and closes with a bibliography.

A two-page German encyclopedia entry on embroidery (Stickerei) from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. It outlines the history of the art from China, the ancient Jews and Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks and Romans through medieval convent work and the decline after the 14th century. It describes techniques and stitches (cross stitch, petit point, satin stitch, chain stitch, white embroidery, gold embroidery, bead embroidery, tambour work) and the centers of machine embroidery in Plauen. It ends with a bibliography of pattern books and literature from 1604 to 1896.

A 1920 guide to bobbin lace by Gertrude Whiting, founder of the Needle and Bobbin Club, written for lace makers and collectors. It has introductory and advice chapters, a five-language lace nomenclature (English, French, Italian, Spanish, German), and detailed rules for making 145 bobbin lace grounds and fillings. These are arranged by line and column of the author's sampler (Torchon, Valenciennes, Devonshire, Flemish, Italian spiders, Buratto/filet, and her own 'Trude' grounds), each with a halftone photograph and a pricking or stitch diagram. The second half is a very large bibliography of lace and needlework literature, followed by an index of the grounds and a description of the accompanying sampler held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Issue no. 2 (December 2004) of Ralph Griswold's newsletter about the Ralph Griswold digital archive of weaving and related documents. It introduces two new contributors, lacemaker Tess Parrish and weaver Kris Bruland (creator of Handweaving.net), and reports on the new Google-based search engine, December additions (139 documents), planned additions, and the decision to put the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club online. Other pieces cover an overview of lace, how the site is organized, using WorldCat (with screenshots of a Japanese weaving book search), copyright and public-domain questions, reviews of Watson's Textile Design and Colour, Lefebure's Les Points de France and Day's Pattern Design, and a price list of archive CDs.

Issue 3 (January 2005) of Ralph Griswold's Webside newsletter about the Digital Archive of weaving and lace documents. It lists January additions (116 documents), explains copyright publication, describes the articles section, and reviews site statistics for document types, downloads and popular items. Other pieces cover robotic book scanning, a wish list, Tess Parrish's lace columns (kinds of handmade lace, needlemade lace), registrations by country, and Kris Bruland's article on errors in historic weaving patterns, with DraftForm examples from Donat, Posselt and Yoshida. It ends with a list of available CDs and web links.

Two-part article from the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club. Part I reviews Arthur Lotz's 1933 Bibliographie der Modelbücher and traces the history of printed lace and embroidery pattern books of the 16th and 17th centuries in Germany, Italy, France, England and Switzerland. Part II describes the Metropolitan Museum of Art's holdings of the early Schönsperger pattern books, with a table of editions and surviving copies. It is illustrated with woodcut title pages, pattern pages, and photographs of lace and drawnwork made from the patterns.

M. B. Hammond's economic history of the American cotton industry, Part I, covers the cotton culture and the cotton trade. The first half traces how cotton was introduced and spread across the South, its ties to slavery, Southern agriculture before and after the Civil War, the agricultural credit system, and proposed remedies for over-production, including co-operative credit. The second half covers the history of the cotton trade from colonial times to 1897, including the Lancashire cotton famine, the evolution of the cotton market and futures trading, and trade patterns from 1866 to 1897. It includes many statistical tables, price charts, a map of slave labor and cotton production in 1860, a bibliography, an appendix of statistics and an index.

A scientific monograph on the physiology and genetics of the Egyptian cotton plant, first published in 1912 and reprinted in 1919. It covers the history of cotton in Egypt, fertilisation and embryology, how temperature, water, roots and light affect growth, flowering and shedding, and the structure and growth of the cotton fibre. Later chapters treat fluctuation, commercial varieties, natural crossing, Mendelian heredity of qualitative and quantitative characters in crosses, and the economics of the Egyptian crop. It includes many graphs, microscope drawings, photographs, statistical tables, a bibliography and an index.

An article by Linda Hendrickson introducing double-faced tablet weaving, in which two packs of tablets (background and design) are turned in opposite directions in an FFBB sequence to produce reversible motifs. It explains how to read the design graph, set up a 24-tablet sampler warp in pearl cotton, and weave a square-motif sampler, and gives troubleshooting advice for common errors such as wrong turning direction, tangled threads and unclear sheds. It ends with a project for a double-faced necklace using 48 tablets, with a design graph, finishing instructions for plied neck cords and fringe, and a short bibliography.