Two pages from The Textile Mercury of 18 May 1889 listing British patent applications filed 6-11 May 1889, patent specifications published, and abstracts of specifications from December 1887. The patents cover looms, jacquard machines, carding engines, knitting machines, spinning mules, reeling machines, sewing machines and azo dyes. The page also has a list of dissolved partnerships and an advertisers' index, with engraved drawings of a traversed warp machine, spinning mule, loom picking motion, reeling machine and ring-and-traveller spindle.