Two pages from The Textile Mercury of 4 January 1890. The main item describes Mr. Wright Shaw's improved dropbox (check) loom, with an engraving and an account of its new pattern-chain stop motion, single lift cam and simplified box motion. The second page carries a Bombay correspondent's report on weaving and Persian carpet making in the Thana convict prison, followed by continental wool, flax, linen and silk trade market reports from Berlin, Fourmies, Lille, Lyons and Rheims.