A practical treatise on weaving by hand and power looms : intended as a text book for manufacturers by hand and power looms, and power loom engineers and especially designed to forward the extension of machinery to all kinds of plain weaving
A mid-nineteenth-century technical treatise on hand and power looms, published in Glasgow in 1846 by J. Niven and written for manufacturers and power loom engineers. Its pictures are engineering plates of loom mechanisms in plan, side elevation and detailed cross-section, with lettered parts and reference keys, useful to a designer wanting precise period machinery diagrams in clean line work.
