Here is the research base used when I was translating a training manual for a very old and well-respected French carpet weaving company.
| Item | Description |
| American Tapestry Alliance | From Beaming to Yarn |
| Boustrophédon | A system that alternately changes the direction of the weave |
| Carpet Background French | The term ‘bourre’ – clumps of cloth |
| Discharging or unloading | the operation that removes sericin from silk threads and fabrics |
| European Tapestry Production 1600-1800 | |
| Finishing custom-made carpets | Binding, gansage and refilling |
| A little history on the Gobelins carpet weavers | Type of Louis XIV carpet |
| How silk is made | Sericulture, breeding silkworms, silk thread and fabric production |
| Indian Boustrophedon basketry | |
| Industry: technology and organization 103 | About blast furnaces – manufacture of iron |
| Jute – type of material | vegetable fibre, the history of jute, types and cultivation and uses |
| Jute (plant) | Jute (plant) Corchorus capsularis, plant, fiber, economic statistics |
| The art of knotting carpets | Characteristics, learning, dyes, knots, knotting, shaving, washing |
| The region of Anatolia | Middle East … the origins of the carpet |
| The drop in trade | Making Gobelins carpets |
| The Middle East | Definition |
| Savonnière carpet manufacturing | Savonnière Manufacturing |
| Making Gobelins carpets | History |
| Parts of a Carpet | Warp, Weft, Pile, Finish |
| What is a tufted carpet? | |
| Savonnière manufacture | |
| Silk Throwing | |
| Steps in Processing Wool | From sheep to fleece, washing, picking, carding, spinning, winding, finishing, skirting, roving |
| Armenian carpet | A type of carpet |
| Highwarp Tapestry | How a loom works |
| Carpet tapestry | |
| Silver beakers | |
| Vertical loom for carpet manufacture | |
| Weave Structures | Axminster, Velvet, Wilton |