A three-page "Designing" feature from The Textile Mercury, 10 May 1890, giving colour-and-weave designs for worsted and woollen suitings (Designs 90-95) with warp colour orders and weave notes. It also gives a Niger Stripe cloth for the African market, with reed, sett, shaft and colour details and pegging plans, and describes an Indian silk counterpane from the Punjab. Pages 2-3 carry the drawdowns, pegging plans and design diagrams. Page 1 also holds unrelated items on a German factory bill and a letter on West Indian cotton growing.