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John T. Taylor
A practical early 20th-century textile teacher, he wrote clear guides that helped explain how cotton and silk fabrics were woven and designed. His best-known work, Cotton Weaving and Designing, blends hands-on instruction with the mechanics behind fabric production.
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Cotton Weaving and Designing 6th Edition
by John T. Taylor
About the author
John T. Taylor was a textile educator and technical writer active in the early 1900s. The edition of Cotton Weaving and Designing available through Project Gutenberg identifies him as a former lecturer on cotton weaving and designing at the technical schools of Preston, Ashton-under-Lyne, Chorley, and Todmorden, and on silk weaving and designing at the Macclesfield Technical School.
His writing focused on the practical side of textile manufacturing. Cotton Weaving and Designing is a detailed manual on weaving processes, loom operation, yarn preparation, and fabric design, written for readers who wanted a working understanding of how cloth was made.
Little biographical information appears to be readily available online beyond his professional teaching roles and publications. Even so, his surviving work suggests a writer committed to making specialized industrial knowledge clear and usable for students and workers in the textile trade.