The analysis & reproduction of textile fabrics : being a reasonable explanation of the necessary calculations and processes involved in analysing, effecting the required changes, and reproducing all the principal types of woven textures, from the raw materials to the finished cloth ; with an appendix upon "The cost of cloths."
A. F. Barker's 1894 technical manual from Manchester publisher Marsden, written for mill managers and textile students who needed to take a woven cloth apart and rebuild it. Diagrams show weave structures as black-and-white grids, interlacing yarn cross-sections, thread-path line drawings, and hatched blocks labelled a, b, c, useful as ready-made pattern tiles and abstract geometric marks.
