On the present development of power-loom weaving of silk fabrics at Lyon
By: by Thomas Wardle
Publisher: Wm. Harris & Sons
Published: 1893
Place of publication: Manchester [Greater Manchester]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Silk industry; Looms
Notes: Text of a paper read before the Weaving and Power-Loom Committee, 17th April, 1891, with subsequent additions.

Loose samples interspersed throughout book.

"The pattern printed on the cover is a Byzantine design, found a few years ago on the Silken burial robe of Otto the Great, Emperor of Germany, A.D. 936-973."