Silk weaver's record book of designs with mounted samples

unk. city: not published, ca. 1890. Unique.. Cloth backed boards.. A very good copy; the binding is worn; two pages loose in the casing.. folio. There are 66 mtd. samples of woven silk and many color Jacquard dia's. ; There are 71 pages of text with an additional pages of mtd. samples & detailed fldg. diagrams (of loom set-ups).

A superb record book of complex silk weaving designs illustrated with 66 large mounted samples of the woven cloth, many large and folding colored Jacquard loom diagrams of the designs. Each sample of cloth is accompanied by details of the thread counts, colors, weaving instructions to effect various densities, texture, and loft for the designs, full dimensions (metric) of the production runs, account of loss expectations to the cloth, color and texture variation, effective introduction of moire (moirage) patterns into the designs, and misc. technical details of production. In addition each sample is described as to its intended use - everything from blouses, wall coverings, linings, hat bands, and fancy goods etc.. The book is in a single neat hand, in German, with infrequent scattered English. There is one date ( in a variant hand ) in the book for July 21, 1900.