A single page from the Designing column of The Textile Mercury (28 Nov. 1889) on new designs for dress fabrics. It recommends cheviot-type and mixture yarns and muted colours for outdoor winter wear, and suggests ways to use a large figured pattern (Figure 1) in woollen and worsted mantle cloths. Four small drawdowns (Designs 5-8) show twill and four-end sateen weaves for ground and figure, with warp and weft particulars for a worsted cloth.