Fabric analysis or Textile Analysis is as old as the fabric trade.

When a competitive textile industry emerged, craft techniques and patterns were often kept a trade secret. Therefor patterns had to be reverse engineered by those who wanted to copy them.

• Article in Weavezine

• Digital Archive of Documents Related to Textile Analysis
• Textile Analysis Bibliography

• Analysis of Weave Structures (Part 1)
• Analysis of Weave Structures (Part 2)