Four pages from The Textile Mercury of 16 November 1889. The issue opens a new 'Designing' series with an introduction and four fabric designs (three twill and weft-rib coatings and a striped cheviot dress fabric), with a draft and pegging plan for Design 4. The machinery section describes Joseph Stubbs's patent doubling winding machine with its drop-wire stop motion, and the Sykes and Sons automatic stop-motion doubling-winding and twisting frame invented by Edwin Hargreaves. Short trade notes follow, including the American cotton crop report.