January 1892 issue of a Belfast trade journal covering the linen, woollen and wider textile industries. It includes a long editorial dispute with Dr. Rutherford over the merits of linen versus wool underclothing, an item on the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and articles on technical education in England and Ireland. The issue also carries the Belfast Linen Trade Report, linen export tables, monthly trade reports from Irish, English, Scotch, Continental, U.S. and Canadian markets, and notes on agricultural education, chemicals and dyes, and textile patents.