Article from The Textile Mercury of July 20, 1889, describing domestic and small-shop knitting machines made by the Harrison Knitting Machine Company of Manchester, including a four-cam patent machine and the 'Grape' B New Patent Knitter, and the threat such machines posed to the hosiery trade of the East Midlands. The scan continues onto a second page with a short piece on an improved rubbing motion for the Bolette condenser used in cotton yarn preparation, followed by trade notes and local mill news from English towns.