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First year weaving

Holmes, James · 1890 · [Burnley] · 199 pictures

A technical primer on cotton weaving by James Holmes, issued at Burnley around 1890 for apprentices and powerloom operatives in the Lancashire mills. The plates are point-paper weave diagrams: grids filled with solid black squares, hatched cells and dotted marks that build twills, checks and diaper repeats, offering ready-made modular patterns and halftone-like grid textures.

Weaving · Cotton weaving · Weaving -- Design · Textile machinery · Powerlooms

Internet Archive · Clark Art Institute Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0