Three pages from The Textile Mercury, 8 June 1889 (pp. 132-134), covering the patents section plus related trade news. It lists British patent applications filed 27-28 May 1889 and abstracts of specifications from January 1888, with line drawings. The abstracts cover textile machinery: carding engines and flats, jacquard harness and card punching, loom dobbies, knitting machines, spinning and ring spindles, carpet weaving, bleaching and steaming machines, and thread-spooling machines. The first page also carries cotton spinning company dividend reports, new company registrations (including a Nottingham lace-making firm) and Gazette bankruptcy notices; the last page ends with an index of advertisers.