A one-page column of patent abstracts from Engineering, July 27, 1900, under the heading Textile Machinery. It describes P. Jeanmaire's mercerising apparatus, which strains fabric with rotary temples between roughened cylinders to increase silky gloss. It also describes a Burrows and Jones loom for weaving wire fabric, in which the shuttle is pushed across the shed by lever-operated pushers driven by a cam. Diagrams of both machines are included.