A practical treatise on the construction of the power-loom and the art of weaving : all descriptions of texture produced by leaves of heddles : illustrated with diagrams, with calculations and instructions for the production of cotton, woollen, linen, and jute fabrics : intended as a textbook for those engaged in the trade
A practical 1887 textbook by Alex Brown, published in Dundee and London, written for working weavers and the textile trade on power-loom construction and weaving. Its pictures are plain line diagrams of loom mechanisms, heddle and warp arrangements, and weave draft grids, which a designer might use as clean schematic motifs for textile patterns or technical graphics.
