Volume 1, No. 1 of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for spinners, manufacturers, machinists, bleachers, colourists and merchants, dated 27 April 1889. It carries a prospectus, editorial comment on trade topics (Bombay technical institute, Anglo-American sheetings in China, steaming in weaving sheds, factory acts for India), foreign correspondence from Germany, obituaries, dyeing and bleaching notes, and illustrated descriptions of new machinery such as a coloured warp dressing machine, cop tubing apparatus, self-acting mule, Livesey loom improvements, ring bobbin reel and an underpick. The issue closes with local mill news from England, Scotland and Ireland, market and trade reports, company dividends and patent listings. The scan also includes the volume title page and index for April-December 1889.

Type

Periodical

Date

April 1889

Language

English

Pages

23

Archive notes

Digital photography.