A review from the Foreign Correspondence column of Garden and Forest, written from London by W. Watson, of A. B. Freeman Mitford's book The Bamboo Garden. It traces the recent introduction of hardy bamboos into English gardens, especially at Kew and Batsford, and summarizes the book's chapters and the 45 hardy species it describes. It also comments on Alfred Parsons's illustrations and quotes Mitford's description of his Batsford garden.

A short book notice from the American Whig Review (February issue, page 188) about J. S. Skinner's monthly magazine The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil. The reviewer describes it as the main organ of the Protectionists, and says that apart from its protective-tariff views it carries useful agricultural information.

A short review from the Literary Notices section of Harper's New Monthly Magazine of volume 2 of The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, a monthly journal edited by J. S. Skinner of Philadelphia. The reviewer describes its argument for harmony among agriculture, manufacturing and the mechanical trades, and for importing people rather than manufactured goods such as iron and cloth. It also gives practical details: 64 pages monthly, $3 for one subscriber or $5 for two.

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.

A one-page library column from the Minnesota Weaver with the librarian's list of new acquisitions on design, overshot drafting, fingerweaving and lace. It also carries two book reviews: Color Exercises for the Weaver (Watson-Guptill) on how warp and weft colors interact, and Plaiting, Step-By-Step by Clashausser and Westfall, on plaiting techniques and sculptural forms.

A one-page review from the American Whig Review's "Critical Notices" column, discussing the August 1849 issue of J. S. Skinner's monthly magazine The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, published in Philadelphia. The reviewer comments on the magazine's printing, price, and contents, including articles on Cumberland coal and iron resources, agricultural chemistry, Georgia railroads and manufactures, and dairy husbandry. The review also digresses to defend the American Review's own subscription price.

A review by W. J. Ashley, published in the Economic Journal in 1912, of the new edition of G. R. Porter's The Progress of the Nation, revised by F. W. Hirst and staff of The Economist. Ashley criticizes the editorial method of abridging Porter's text and adding later statistical chapters, citing omitted passages and inconsistent figures such as the silk export tables. The review touches on the silk industry, the Jacquard loom and the Cobden Treaty. The scan begins with the end of a preceding review by I. G. Gibbon on German insurance and ends at the start of a review of Cunningham's The Case Against Free Trade.

A three-page review from The Connoisseur of N. Hudson-Moore's book The Lace Book (Chapman and Hall). It summarizes the author's views on the Italian versus Flemish origins of lace, his division of lace styles into periods, and his accounts of Points de France, Alençon, Argentan, Venetian, and English and Spanish bobbin laces. It also reports auction prices, such as those from the 1902 Sir William Drake sale, and is illustrated with photographs of seventeenth-century needle-lace specimens.

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.

A short review by Ralph Griswold of Stephen Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science' (2002), written from the viewpoint of weavers and pattern designers with a mathematical bent. After general comments on Wolfram and the book's style and claims, it describes three pattern-generating systems from the book: cellular automata, block substitution, and constraint systems. It relates these to drawdowns, plain weave and twills, and as sources of new weave designs.

A review in Arts & Decoration of the folio book on antique laces by Frances Morris and Marian Hague, both of the Needle and Bobbin Club. It outlines the book's history of lace from sixteenth-century Italy and Flanders: reticella, punto in aria, Venetian and Burano needle laces, bobbin lace, and the eighteenth-century French and Belgian net laces. It also covers the pattern books of Isabella Parasole and the Needle and Bobbin Club's exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. Photographs show pieces owned by American collectors.

A critical review in Nature of H. B. Heylin's 'The Cotton Weaver's Handbook' (London: Charles Griffin, 1908). The reviewer finds the book hasty and repetitive, with many factual and typographical errors, poor machinery illustrations, and inadequate chapters on the power loom and yarn preparation. The chapter on weaves is called the best part. The review also criticizes the costing and yarn-count sections, the blank pages and the reprinted examination questions.

A two-page review in The Magazine of Art of Madame Isabelle Errera's catalogue of her collection of about 400 historical textile specimens, which she donated to the Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels. The collection runs from the fourth century onward, with most coverage of the twelfth to eighteenth centuries. The review notes that several specimens match fabrics painted by Old Masters such as Bronzino, Moroni and Ottaviano Nelli, and illustrates three of them: gold cloth with looped red velvet, gold cloth and red velvet, and silk and blue thread with gold.

Two reprinted reviews in The Living Age of William Thom's book 'Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-loom Weaver'. The first, from the Examiner, retells his account of destitution after Dundee's looms fell silent, the death of his daughter Jeanie, his wandering with his family, and his work as a country weaver in Inverury, with several of his Scots poems. The second, from Punch, argues that Scotland should support the living weaver-poet rather than only honor Burns. The pieces concern weaving as a livelihood and its hardships, not weaving technique.

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.

January 1974 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly bulletin from Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. The editor's column covers a yarn-buying trip to Europe and upcoming summer workshops with Sallie O'Sullivan and Peter Collingwood. The issue includes reviews of Weaving You Can Wear and Keep Me Warm One Night, plus a notice of a Nova Scotia handcraft exhibit and a subscription price increase. The monthly sample is a four-shaft red and white mercerized cotton fabric, with threading, tie-up, treadling, sett, thread details and cost per yard. The last pages carry yarn and book advertisements.

September 1977 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly newsletter from Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's summer report, a cover note on a Finnweave piece, a review of Nancy Belfer's Weaving: Design and Expression, and a report on Swedish weaver Malin Selander's workshop and talk. The monthly sample is "Tangleweed," a 4-shaft weft-faced fabric using novelty yarns, with threading, tie-up, treadling, yarn details and cost per yard. The issue ends with classified ads for yarns, books and looms.

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.

A one-page book notice in the American Whig Review (January issue, page 112) of Harper & Brothers' 1845 volume on the history of silk, cotton, linen, wool and other fibrous substances. The reviewer reproduces the full title, which promises material on spinning, dyeing and weaving, the pastoral life of the ancients, and appendices on Pliny, paper, felting and netting. The review praises the work's usefulness to American growers of silk, cotton and flax and notes its paper and illustrations.

December 1966 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly published by Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's notes on rising costs and zip-code mailing, reviews of John Tovey's The Technique of Weaving and Berta Frey's Seven Projects in Rosepath, and a description of the cover photograph showing a distorted warp effect. The main feature, "Ribbon Magic", gives a four-harness threading, tie-up, sleying and treadling for a fabric woven with rayon ribbon and loop mohair, with notes on handling ribbon, bonding and finishing the cloth, and a cost breakdown. The issue ends with classified ads and a marketplace page.

October 1968 issue of Warp & Weft, a monthly published by Robin & Russ Handweavers in McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's column, reviews of books on textile fibers and on fishermen's knots and nets, a short book corner, and a cover photograph note on a tapestry shown at the Northern California Handweavers Conference. The main weaving feature is "Ashen White," a four-shaft, six-treadle fabric in rayon and linen-rayon flake boucle with a special sleying in a six-dent reed, treadling, warping plan for place-mats, and cost per yard. The issue ends with classified yarn and book advertisements.

April 1977 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly published by Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes an editor's column on ramie and upcoming conferences, a note on a warp-faced log cabin cover photo, reviews of two books (Crafts of the North American Indians; Carding, Spinning, Dyeing), and a draft for a four-shaft worsted fabric called Burgundy Basketry with threading, tie-up, treadling, sett and cost. The issue ends with a spinning wheel article and classified ads for yarns and books.

February 1983 issue of Warp & Weft, a monthly published by Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes an editor's column by Russell Groff on yarn purchases and conferences, a cover-photo note on a Scandinavian (Swedish) Lightning wall hanging by Ruth Duker, and a review of Dorothy K. Burnham's The Comfortable Arts on traditional Canadian spinning and weaving. The project "Tuxedo" is a 4-shaft, 6-treadle fabric in cotton and chenille with tie-up, threading, treadling, sleying and cost per yard. A second project gives directions for fur inlay rugs. The remaining pages are classified and display ads for yarns and supplies.

April 1974 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly sample-issue newsletter from Robin & Russ Handweavers in McMinnville, Oregon. It contains the editor's column on recent workshops (Else Regensteiner, Peter Collingwood), reviews of Malin Selander's Swedish Swatches, Red Series and Raoul D'Harcourt's Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques, and the featured sample: a Norwegian three-harness band weave adapted for linen table linens. The sample includes a threading draft, tie-up, treadling sequence, warp and weft yarn details, weaving tips on tension and lease sticks, and a cost breakdown per yard. The issue ends with classified ads for yarns and equipment and a marketplace page.

December 1980 issue of Warp & Weft, a monthly published by Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's column on upcoming samples, workshops and conferences, a cover photo note on an 8-harness overshot, and book reviews (Doup Leno, The Maori Mantle, Sling Braiding of the Andes, Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook). The featured sample, "Peasant Chic," is a 4-harness plain weave upholstery fabric with a tie-up, threading, treadling, yarn details, and cost breakdown. The issue ends with classified yarn and book ads and display advertisements.

May 1977 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly newsletter from Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes an editor's column, a note on a double weave coverlet cover photograph (Lisbon Star center, Pine Tree border), and a project, 'Golden Daze', for a linen and ramie drapery fabric with a 4-shaft threading, tie-up, treadling, reed sleying, and cost breakdown. It also has reviews of Ruth J. Katz's Card Weaving and Cason and Cahlander's The Art of Bolivian Highland Weaving, plus classified ads for yarns, tools, books and looms.

March 1984 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly published by Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It contains an editor's column by Russell Groff, a critique of a Navajo-inspired tapestry shown on the cover, and a 4-shaft twill draft called "Sporty Silk" in 30/3 silk with sett, treadling and cost per yard. Two book reviews cover Jean Wilson's Joinings, Edges, and Trims and Ena Maidens' The Techniques of Crocheted and Openwork Lace. The rest is classified ads for yarns and books, plus an ad for the Oregon Trail Loom.

A review by Vernon L. Kellogg, published in Science in 1907, of Mary Austin's book 'The Flock' (1906), which records her observations of sheep, shepherds, and sheep dogs in California. Kellogg quotes passages on flock behavior (leaders and followers, panic flight, bedding habits), the loss of native instincts through domestication, poisonous plants and water, and the training of sheep dogs. He argues that a literary nature writer's observations can still be of value to scientists.

A one-page review from the Botanical Gazette's Current Literature section summarizing Tine Tammes's genetic study of flower characters in six varieties of common flax (Linum usitatissimum). It explains how complementary factors B and C produce blue flowers, with factor A intensifying the color, and how these factors affect anther color, seed color, petal shape, vein pigmentation, and seed number and viability. It is plant genetics rather than textile technique, relevant to flax as a fiber crop.

A one-page review in Nature of Vernon L. Kellogg's 1908 Stanford publication on heredity in silkworms. It sets Kellogg's breeding experiments beside those of Coutagne and Toyama, and reports that larval characters follow Mendelian inheritance while cocoon characters show many exceptions. The reviewer criticizes the lack of numerical data and probable-error calculations, using the non-adhesive egg character of the Bagdad race as an example.

A review reprinted from the Polytechnic Review in the Living Age of William Walton's book on naturalizing the alpaca in the British Isles. It summarizes the book's contents, including the alpaca's wool and meat, its suitability to British soil and climate, and the benefits for farmers and manufacturers. It quotes passages on the animal's hardiness in snow and storms, and mentions breeders such as Prince Albert and the Earl of Derby. It ends with a letter from G. Stirling about showing an alpaca at the Glasgow Highland show in 1844.

A one-page review from the 'From Woods & Fields' column in Minnesota Weaver of Fred Gerber's 70-page book on cochineal and other insect dyes. The reviewer describes its coverage of dye and mordant history, kermes, St. John's Blood, lac and cochineal, its 34 mounted cochineal-dyed yarn samples, Bancroft's study, carmine preparation, and use of the ISCC-NBS color name charts. Ordering information and prices are given; the page also carries a Glimåkra loom advertisement.

A review in The Spectator (17 June 1911) of Adelaide Gosset's book Shepherds of Britain. It draws on the sayings of the Scottish shepherd James Gardner and on Walter Skeat's chapter on the ancient British sheep-counting score, which survives in Lincolnshire and has Welsh parallels. It also covers sheep folklore, including homing instinct, weather prophecy, sacrificial customs and the bond between shepherd and dog. It contains nothing on weaving or textile technique.

A one-page review, reprinted from the Spectator in the Living Age, of William Walton's book urging the naturalization of the Alpaca in the British Isles. The reviewer summarizes Walton's case for the Alpaca over the Llama (better wool, meat and constitution) and the earlier attempts at introduction in Britain. He cautions that the author overrates the meat and underrates the difficulties, but considers the fleece valuable to manufacturers and the experiment worth a larger trial, with pure breeding and careful management.

A short book review by Ralph E. Griswold of Peter H. Fowler's 'How to Be Owned by an Antique Spinning Wheel: A Practical Guide' (Unicorn Gifts and Crafts, 2003). It summarizes the book's contents: history of spinning, how wheels work, advice for collectors on spotting fakes and dating wheels, a chapter on Asian spindle wheels, identification, repair and restoration, spinning, and accessories. The second page reproduces two illustrations from the book, including a postcard-style image of a woman spinning from a distaff.

A single page from Minnesota Weaver containing two items. The part relevant to the catalog title is Connie Magoffin's review in the 'From Woods & Fields' column of Frederick H. Gerber's 59-page book Indigo and the Antiquity of Dyeing, covering indigo vat chemistry, the history of vat techniques, theories on the antiquity of dyeing, and the identity of colonial indigo plants. It gives ordering information and a group discount. The page also has a humorous piece by Eric Broudy, 'Confessions of a Handweaver's Husband,' about living with a weaver's looms and yarn.

A short column from the Minnesota Weaver's 'From Woods & Fields' series reviewing eleven natural dye books held in the Weavers Guild library. Each entry gives author, title, publisher and year with a brief comment on content, covering general dye manuals, lichen dyeing and identification, and ancient dye materials. A small advertisement for Yellowleaf & Friends appears on the page.

A short review in The Manufacturer and Builder of two collections of old Italian linen embroidery patterns, edited by Frieda Lipperheide and published by Franz Lipperheide in Berlin. Each quarto volume has 30 plates with explanatory text, and the review recommends them as pattern sources and for art education. It also notes the earlier three collections of Old German Linen Embroidery in the same series and gives the price of 6 marks each.

A short column by Mary M. Atwater answering a reader's question about "miniature patterns," which are overshot drafts condensed onto as few threads as possible for upholstery and hangings. Atwater says she dislikes them and prefers keeping the traditional patterns intact, such as Whig Rose. The page also carries a brief book review of the revised edition of Helen Louise Allen's American Hand-weaving, with its added illustrations, tapestry and primitive techniques section, prices and ordering source.

A one-page spinning column from Minnesota Weaver that opens with short reviews of sheep-themed and knitting books, including titles on sheep breeds, the textile industry and Elizabeth Zimmermann's knitting books. It lists where to buy them and announces knitting classes and clinics at local Minnesota yarn shops. It closes with a Q&A section on lubricating spinning wheels and on measuring orifice size, signed Tony Glaski.

A review from The Dial of the 1902 revised edition of Mrs. Bury Palliser's History of Lace, edited by M. Jourdain and Alice Dryden. The reviewer describes the book's country-by-country organization, its illustrations and antiquarian detail, and its weaker technical explanations for novices. She also discusses the social, religious, political and industrial history of lace, including decline and revival of lacemaking.

April 1967 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly handweaving bulletin from Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's note on his coming trip to the British Isles, Switzerland and Scandinavia, conference announcements, a review of Harriet Tidball's monograph on summer and winter and other two-tie unit weaves, and a project, 'Red and White, A Patio Delight', for patio place mats or a tablecloth. The project gives a four-harness threading, tie-up, two treadling sequences and cost figures. The issue ends with classified yarn and equipment advertisements.

December 1981 issue of Warp and Weft, the monthly bulletin of Robin & Russ Handweavers in McMinnville, Oregon. It presents a four-shaft draft for "Peppermint Swirls," a 2/2 twill in 10/3 natural and bleached cotton with a pink cotton floss weft, where an undulating pattern comes from irregular sleying of a 20-dent reed; the full sleying sequence is given. The issue also has the editor's column on the shop's yarn sample sheets and new yarns bought in England and Scotland, a cover photograph note on a Banff School of Fine Arts wall hanging, and a review of Carol S. Kurtz's Designing for Weaving. The last page has advertisements, including a announcement of a 1982 weaving tour to New Zealand and Australia.

A single page from Minnesota Weaver (October 1976) with a Spotlight feature on the Guthrie Theater costume shop in Minneapolis, written by two of its employees. It describes how theatre costumes are designed, cut, fitted and built, and how fabrics are altered with techniques such as braiding, couching, embroidery and finger weaving. The page also carries Library News, with a list of new guild library books, and a short review by Charlotte Miller of Arline Fisch's Textile Techniques in Metal.

April 1958 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly bulletin from Robin & Russ Handweavers of Santa Barbara, California. It includes the editor's column, a profile of the Black family's weaving business on Cape Cod, and a four-harness conventional honeycomb draft in cotton and silk with tie-up, threading, treadling, materials and cost per yard. Two book reviews (Mary E. Black's New Key to Weaving and the Swedish text Smavavar) are followed by classified ads for looms and yarns and a loom and yarn supplier marketplace page.

March 1960 issue of the monthly Warp and Weft from Robin & Russ Handweavers, Santa Barbara. It features a drapery fabric called "Popcorn", with tie-up, threading, sleying, warp and weft materials with prices, and treadling sequence. It also includes an editor's column on shop orders, a review of Ronald Grierson's Woven Rugs, a profile of the Bobbin Winders weaving guild of Pomona and the San Gabriel Valley, a cover note on ramie and silk draperies, and advertisements for books, looms and yarns.

June 1963 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly handweaving bulletin from Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's news column, a note on Malin Selander teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, cover notes on a wall hanging by Phyllis B. Dow, and reviews of Handweaving Patterns from Finland and Handmade Rugs. The main project is a 4-harness novelty weave in turquoise perle cotton and rust spun viscose, with threading, tie-up, treadling, a mounted sample, sett, selvage tips and cost per yard. Two dress yardage projects in wool and silk, a linen special, classified ads and supplier advertisements follow.

February 1974 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly bulletin from Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon, edited by Russell E. Groff. It includes the editor's news about upcoming workshops (Peter Collingwood, Sallie O'Sullivan) and travel, reviews of the books Off the Loom by Shirley Marein and Inkle Loom Weaving by Nina Holland, and notes on the cover tapestry of Mt. Hood. The main feature is a four-harness sample, "Contemporary and Traditional," with a tie-up for counter-balanced and jack looms, a small diamond threading, a five-color cotton warp sequence, nylon pattern weft with ramie tabby, treadling, a placemat plan, and cost figures. The issue also announces three weaving conferences and has classified ads and a marketplace page.

June 1977 issue of Warp & Weft, the monthly bulletin of Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon, edited by Russell E. Groff. It includes an editor's column on weaving conventions in California, loom sales and a planned 1978 weaving tour, plus a cover photo of a slit tapestry wall hanging by Alix E. Peshette. The monthly sample is Lemon Peach Sherbet, a four-harness Summer and Winter cotton fabric with tie-up, threading, treadling, yarn amounts and cost per yard. Two book reviews cover H. Ling Roth's Studies in Primitive Looms and Glashausser and Westfall's plaiting book, followed by classified ads for yarns, looms and spinning wheels.

June 1981 issue of Warp & Weft, the monthly newsletter of Robin & Russ Handweavers in McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's column on yarn shipments, buying trips and book publishing, a review of Helene Bress's The Weaving Book: Patterns and Ideas, and the monthly sample, a 4-shaft ribbed swivel weave in 6-strand cotton floss with threading, tie-up, colors, treadling, yardage and cost per yard. It also describes the cover fabric (a canvas weave in linen and ramie), and carries classified yarn advertisements and ads for a weaving tour to Australia and New Zealand and Norwood looms.