Le textile de Lyon
A printed statistical report on the Lyon silk trade, issued in 1879 by an unnamed Lyon publisher and aimed at merchants and manufacturers of textiles. The pictures are not illustrations but tabular pages of silk shipment figures, with ruled columns of numbers under headings such as Sortes, Poids and Ballots pesés, showing origin countries like France, Espagne, Italie, Chine and Japon. A designer might borrow the ruled-table layout, the dense small type and the grid of columns as a plain structural device.
