Three pages from The Textile Mercury of 11 May 1889 (pp. 58-60) covering the patent column and nearby trade news. It lists British patent applications filed 29 April to 4 May 1889, mostly for looms, shuttle guards, spinning and sewing machines, and dyeing apparatus. It also lists published specifications and gives abstracts of 1887 specifications, some with diagrams, including a weft stop-motion, dobbies, drop-box and shedding mechanisms, scroll tappets, yarn dyeing apparatus, a cotton willow, lace and frilling machinery, and azo dyes and mordants. The first page also carries a new-company registration (T. F. Firth and Sons, carpet manufacturers) and Gazette notices.