This is an illustrated list of books, articles and manuscripts about weaving and textile history, technology, and design, with download links for non-copyright items.
Ashenhurst, Thomas R. (1881) An Album of Textile Designs Containing Upwards of 7,000 Patterns Suitable for Fabrics of Every Description, J. Broadbent & Co. Bradford / Huddersfield.
Illustrations of 7,200 weave patterns, mostly fancy twills, listed according to the number of ends in a repeat, from 3 to 16.
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html
Ashenhurst, Thomas R. (1899) Design in Textile Fabrics. London.
https://archive.org/details/designintextilef00ashe_0
Ashenhurst, Thomas R. (1879) A practical treatise on weaving and designing of textile fabrics : with chapters on the principles of construction of the loom, calculations and colour. Bradford.
https://archive.org/details/practicaltreatis00ashe
Ashenhurst, Thomas R. (1902) A treatise on textile calculations and the structure of fabrics. Huddersfield.
https://archive.org/details/treatiseontextil00ashe
Baines, Edward (1835) History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London.
Much quoted early history of the British cotton industry. Contains beautiful engravings of machinery and industrial mills.
https://archive.org/details/historyofcottonm00bainrich/
Baines, Patricia (1989) Linen: Hand Spinning and Weaving. London.
Baldwin, Amos A. (1878) A treatise on Designing and Weaving Plain & Fancy Woolen Cloths. New York.
https://archive.org/details/treatiseondesign00bald
Barlow, Alfred (1879) The History and Principles of Weaving By Hand and By Power. London.
Contains some good description and line drawing explaining the mechanisms and operations of hand weaving, such as the English loom, fly-shuttle etc.
https://archive.org/details/historyprinciple00barl/
Becker, John & Wagner, Don (2009) Pattern & Loom: A Practical Study in the Development of Weaving Techniques in China, Western Asia and Europe. Copenhagen.
Beckert, Sven (2014) Empire of Cotton. New York.
Beaumont, Roberts (1916) Standard Cloths, Structure and Manufacture (General, Military and Naval) London.
https://archive.org/details/standardclothsst00beauuoft
Bell, T.F (1895) Jacquard weaving and designing. New York.
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125001153218/mode/2up
Bemiss, Elijah (1815) The Dyers Companion, New York
https://archive.org/details/dyerscompanionin00bemi_0
Bennett, Frank & Co., (1914) A Cotton Fabrics Glossary; Containing instructions for the Manufacture of Every Known Grade and Variety of Cotton Fabrics
https://archive.org/details/acottonfabricsg00cogoog/
Berthollet, Claude-Louis (1792) Elements of the Art of Dying
https://archive.org/details/elementsofartofd00bert_1
Bradbury, Fred (1912) Jacquard Mechanism and Harness Mounting. Manchester.
https://archive.org/details/jacquardmechanis00brad
Bronson, J & R (1817) The domestic manufacturer’s assistant, and family directory, in the arts of weaving and dyeing. Utica, USA.
https://archive.org/details/domesticmanufact00bron
Butterworth, James (1801) A Guide to Universal Manufacture; or the Web Analyzed. Manchester.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Guide_to_Universal_Manufacture/KgMoMFVj1ocC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=james+butterworth&printsec=frontcover
Butterworth, James (1812) The fustian manufacturer and weaver’s draught book.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Fustian_Manufacturer_and_Weaver_s_Dr/JX5wzEugBp8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=james+butterworth&printsec=frontcover
Butterworth, James (1805) The Weaver’s Pocket Companion; Or Weaving Spiritualized. London.
Butterworth, James (1825) The Manufacturer’s and Weaver’s Guide: Or the Web Unravelled.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sPKnA8nWUbUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0 – v=onepage&q&f=false
Bythell, Duncan (1969) The Handloom Weavers: A Study in the English Cotton Industry during the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge.
Carter, H. R (1907) Modern flax, hemp and jute spinning and twisting; a practical handbook for the use of flax, hemp, and jute spinners, thread, twine, and rope makers. London & New York.
https://archive.org/details/modernflaxhempa01cartgoog/mode/2up
Cyrus-Zetterstrom, Ulla & Blomquist, Alice (translator) (1984) Manual of Swedish Handweaving. Stockholm.
Dodd, George (1844) Textile Manufactures of Great Britain.
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=xUXxa1Xi5TsC&pg=GBS.PP1&hl=en
Dolan, Alice (2015) The Fabric of Life: Linen and Life Cycle in England 1678-1810 PhD Thesis, University of Hertfordhsire
http://spinning-wheel.org/events/
Donat, Franz (1900) Bindungs-Lexikon für Schaftweberei
Contains beautiful coloured plates of textile designs
https://archive.org/details/bindungslexikonf00dona/page/34/mode/2up
Donat, Franz (1908) Methodik der Bindungslehre, Dekomposition und Kalkulation für Schaftweberei : Bearbeitet für Textilschulen und zum Selbstunterricht.
(Methodology of binding theory, decomposition and calculation for shaft weaving: edited for textile schools and for self-teaching)
Comprehensive German guide to structure and technology, with beautiful coloured illustrations on patterns and machinery.
https://archive.org/details/methodikderbindu00dona/page/30/mode/2up
Donat, Franz (1907) Die färbige Gewebemusterung : ein Lehrgang, Gewebe durch 2-6 färbige Anordnung der Ketten- und Schussfäden zu figurieren
(The colored fabric patterning: a course in figuring fabric through 2-6 colored arrangement of the warp and weft threads)
Donat, Franz (1895) Large Book of Textile Designs.
Contains beautiful coloured plates of textile designs.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp15970
Duncan, John (1808) Practical and descriptive essays on the art of weaving.
http://archive.org/details/practicaldescripOOdunc
Evans, N. The East Anglian Linen Industry: Rural Industry And Local Economy, 1500 1850.
Fannin, Allen A. (1979) Handloom Weaving Technology
Forbes Watson, J. (1867) The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India. London.
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008608495
Fox, T. W. (1894) The Mechanism of Weaving, London
https://archive.org/details/mechanismofweavi00foxt
Frickinger, Johann Michael (1740) Weber Bild Buch
https://archive.org/details/MAB.31962000742761Images
Frickinger, Johann Michael (1783) Weber Bild Buch
https://archive.org/details/weberbildbuchals00fric
Gilroy, Clinton G (1844) The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times. New York, Baldwin.
Gilroy appears to have been something of a fraud. Substantial portions of the text are plagiarised from other authors such as John Duncan, while other sections are fanciful inventions. Beautiful engravings, such as Jacquard mountings towards the back.
https://archive.org/details/artofweavingbyha00gilr
Guest, Richard (1823) Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture; with Disproval of the Claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the Invention of Its Ingenious Machinery; Manchester.
History of developments in British cotton spinning and weaving. Includes engravings of English loom, warping mill, jennies, water frames etc. at back of book.
http://www.archive.org/details/compendioushistoOOgues
Hanton, W. A. (1954) Mechanics for Textile Students. Manchester.
Hargrove, John (1792) The Weaver’s Draft Book and Clothiers Assistant; Baltimore.
Hellot, Jean; Macquer, Pierre Joseph; Le Pileur D’Apligny (1789) The Art of Dying Wool, Silk and Cotton, London
https://archive.org/details/dyingwoolsilkcot00hell
Heylin, Henry Brougham (1908), The Cotton Weavers Handbook: A practical guide To the Construction and Costing of Cotton Fabrics, with Studies of Designs; London.
“By Henry Brougham Heylin of the Royal Technical Institute, Salford” With 358 illustrations “The main objects in writing this work have been—first, in the interests of Technical Education ; secondly, to place before the reader and student—by simple methods of description and in as compact a handbook as possible—the principles and conditions under which cotton goods are respectively constructed and produced.”
Includes line drawings illustrating of power loom mechanisms and weave structures. Good clear diagrams of weave structure and loom mountings.
https://archive.org/details/cottonweavershanOOheyl
Holmes, James (1896) Cotton Cloth Designing, Burnley.
James Holmes was Lecturer in Weaving at Burnley, Nelson, Accrington and Nelson Technical Schools, Lancashire. “The object of this work is to explain the Principles of Designing for Simple woven patterns.” Contains colour plates in black, red, yellow and blue, describing patterns and structures of plain, twill, gauze, leno, double cloth, satins etc.
http://www.archive.org/details/cottonclothdesigOOholm
Holmes, James (1912) Manuscript Notes on Weaving. Burnley.
Handwritten text and hand drawn illustrations. Notes and exercises for weaving students. Includes cloth patterns and structures alongside diagrams of early twentieth century machinery.
https://archive.org/details/manuscriptnoteso02holm/mode/2up
Hooper, Luther (1920) Hand-Loom Weaving, Plain & Ornamental; from the Artistic Craft Series of Technical Handbooks, edited by W.R. Lethaby; Bath, Melbourne, New York.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Hand-Loom Weaving, Plain %26 Ornamental
Horner, John (1920) The Linen Trade of Europe During the Spinning Wheel Period.
https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.16423/page/n13/mode/2up
Inikori, Joseph (1989) Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England. Social Science History,Volume 13, Issue 4, Winter 1989 , pp. 343 – 379.
Kirschbaum, Johann Michael (1771) Neues Weberbild: und Musterbuch… zur Beförderung der edlen Leinen- und Bildweberkunst
https://archive.org/details/neuesweberbildun00kirs
Leggett, William (1945) The Story of Linen.
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065724414
Lumscher, Nathaniel (1708) Neu Eingerichtetes Weber Kunst und Bild Buch
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/4JGOVNGF4AQSLDESNRVTQL42IC4RYX3O?lang=en
Lumscher, Nathaniel (1709) Neu hervorkommendes Weber Kunst und Bild Buch
https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN511033443
Lumscher, Nathaniel (1720) Neu hervorkommendes Weber Kunst und Bild Buch, Erster Theil
https://download.digitale-sammlungen.de/BOOKS/download.pl?id=bsb11304574
Lumscher, Nathaniel (1727) Des Neu-erfundenen Weber Kunst- und Bild-Buchs, Dritter Theil
https://archive.org/details/MAB.31962000742241Images
Lumscher, Nathaniel (1736) Des Kunst Bild und Weber Buchs, Vierter Theil
https://archive.org/details/neuhervorkommend00lums
Note: this item in The Clark Art Institute Library is catalogued as Neu-hervorkommendes Weber- Kunst- und Bild- Buch (# NK8805 L85 1736) but actually contains four volumes in one, with re-prints of earlier Lumscher volumes followed by Des Kunst Bild und Weber Buchs, Vierter Theil.
The pdf file from archive.org contains the following:
Neu hervorkommendes Weber Kunst und Bild Buch, Erster Theil
Des Neu-erfundenen Weber Kunst- und Bild-Buchs, Anderer Theil (from page 145)
Des Neu-erfundenen Weber Kunst- und Bild-Buchs, Dritter Theil (from page 269)
Des Kunst Bild und Weber Buchs, Vierter Theil (from p 412)
Marks, R. & Robinson A. T. C. (1976) Principles of Weaving. Textile Institute, Manchester.
Marsden, Richard (1895) Cotton Weaving: Its Development Principles and Practice; London & Manchester.
From preface: “The present work is an exposition of the development, principles, and practice of the weaving division of the trade, as the former volume was of the spinning division.”
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A”Marsden,+Richard,+1837-1903″
Moore, Alfred. S (1922) Linen. London, Bombay, Sydney. Constable & Company.
https://archive.org/details/linen00moor/page/n5/mode/2up
Moore, Alfred. S (1914) Linen: From the Raw Material to the Finished Product. London, New York. Pitman.
https://archive.org/details/linenfromrawmate00moorrich
Murphy, John (1827) Treatise on the Art of Weaving, Illustrated by Engravings, with Calculations and Tables, for the Use of Manufacturers; Glasgow
Ch. 1: Loom Mountings: The first loom described is a coutermarche handloom, although not referred to as such, implying this was the commonly used loom. Lamms are called marches, long and short. Harnesses are called leafs, and are lifted by coupers in the top castle. Also includes descriptions of Jack and Stock and Pulley Mounting.
Ch. 2: Tweeling: good introduction to tweel patterns, satinets, damboard etc.
Some nice pattern plates in the back.
https://archive.org/details/treatiseonartofw1827murp/page/n7/mode/2up
Neville, H. (1897) The students handbook of practical fabric structure., Technical School Blackburn,.
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html
Oelsner, G. H. (1915) A Handbook of Weaves. New York.
Partridge, William (1834) A Practical Treatise on Dying Woollen Cotton and Silk. New York.
https://archive.org/details/dyingwoollencott00part
Peddie, Alexander (1817) The Linen Manufacturer, Weaver, and Warper’s Assistant, Glasgow.
https://archive.org/details/linenmanufacture00pedd
Posselt, E. A (1887) The Jacquard machine analyzed and explained: with an appendix on the preparation of Jacquard cards
https://archive.org/details/jacquardmachinea00poss
Schonsperger, Johann (1529) Ein New Getruckt Model Büchli Auff Außnehen Unnd Borttenwircken Ynn Der Laden Unnd Lanngenn Gestell. Ganntz Gerecht Nach Abteilung Der Feden Tzal.
https://archive.org/details/Schnsperger15291529EinNewMET/mode/2up
Styles, John. (2016) Fashion, Textiles and the Origin of Industrial Revolution, Research Paper
http://spinning-wheel.org/events/
Taylor, John T. (1909) Cotton Weaving & Designing, London.
“By John T. Taylor, late lecturer on Cotton Weaving and Designing in the Preston, Ashton-under-Lyne, Chorley, and Todmorden Technical Schools, and on Silk Weaving and Designing in the Macclesfield Technical School, author of designs for cotton fabrics, etc., in ‘The Textile Manufacturer’.”
Technical instruction manual introducing the processes and equipment of late nineteenth / early twentieth century English industrial cotton weaving. Very technical with lots of industrial machine drawings.
https://archive.org/details/cottonweavingdes00taylrich
Tidball, Harriet (1964) Thomas Jackson, Weaver: 17th and 18th Century Records. Shuttle Craft Guild.
Tomlinson, Charles (1861) The useful arts and manufactures of Great Britain.
https://archive.org/details/usefulartsmanufa00toml
Tovey, John (1965) The Technique of Weaving. Readers Union, Devon.
Tovey, John (1969) Weaves and Pattern Drafting. London.
Ure, Andrew (1836): The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain, Systematically Investigated. London.
https://archive.org/details/cottonmanufactu04uregoog
Wadsworth, Alfred & De Lacey Mann, Julia (1931) The cotton trade and industrial lancashire, 1600-1780. Manchester University Press.
Von Walterstorff, Emilie (Editor) (1925) Swedish Textiles. Stockholm.
https://archive.org/details/swedishtextiles00nord
Warburg, James Paul (1921) Cotton and Cotton Manufacture: A Brief Analysis for the Layman. Boston
https://archive.org/details/cottoncottonmanu03warb
Warden Alex J. (1867) The Linen Trade, Ancient & Modern.
https://archive.org/details/linentradeancie00wardgoog
Watson, John (1869) The Theory and Practice of the Art of Weaving By Hand and By Power. With Calculations and Tables, for the Use of Those Connected with the Trade.
http://www.archive.org/details/theorypracticeofOOwats
Watson, William (1921) Textile design and colour; elementary weaves and figured fabrics. Glasgow.
https://archive.org/details/textiledesigncol00wats
Watson, William (1913) Advanced Textile Design. Glasgow. 1913.
https://archive.org/details/advancedtextiled00watsrich
White, George (1846) A Treatise on Weaving By Hand and Power Looms. Glasgow.
“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”
Contains very detailed description of processes and equipment used in the contemporary manufacturing of cotton cloth. Deals with hand weaving and power weaving separately. Contains wood engraved illustrations in the text, and fine engraved plates of industrial machinery at the back.
https://archive.org/details/practicaltreatis00whit/
White, James (1908) The hand loom linen weavers of Ireland and their work. Chicago.
https://archive.org/details/handloomlinenwea00whit
Woodhouse, Thomas & Milne, Thomas (1914) Jute and Linen Weaving, Macmillan.
https://archive.org/details/jutelinenweaving00woodrich/page/n31/mode/2up
Worst, Edward F. (1918) Foot Power Loom Weaving. Milwaukee.
Edward F. Worst, Supervisor of Elementary Manual Training and Construction Work, Chicago, Ill. “Introduction: The suggestions offered in this manual are for those who believe that the more advanced weaving should be pursued as a most wholesome occupation and that it should again, in the near future, find a place not only in the school but also in the home. The work is so full of possibilities and the results obtained have such a wonderful effect on the character of the worker that these alone afford ample reasons why weaving should be carried on in both school and community. The descriptions given are for the amateur weaver who will find them more easily understood than those given in the more technical books on the subject. It is hoped that those interested will find help through the suggestions offered in this manual.”
https://archive.org/details/loomweafootpower00worsrich/
Ziegler, Marx (1677) Weber Kunst und Bild Buch
Digital copy available from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library): https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb11283522_00086.html
Author unknown (1698) The Linnen and Woollen Manufactury Discoursed.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BQouxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0 – v=onepage&q&f=false