Three pages from The Textile Mercury of 25 May 1889 centered on British patent news. They list patent applications filed 13-18 May 1889 (looms, reeds, shuttle guards, jacquard card punching, carding, spinning, dyeing and finishing), specifications published, and abstracts of 1888 specifications, some with drawings of an overpick loom picker, a yarn dyeing frame, a loom shuttle, a rotary dipping wheel and a wet twisting frame. The pages also carry a French duty table for textiles, company and share news for Lancashire cotton mills, Gazette bankruptcy notices, and an advertisers' index.