Two pages from The Textile Mercury of 18 January 1890 covering new textile machinery and dye-house practice. Machinery items describe Lord Brothers' improved cotton scutcher, a silk winding machine using star discs shown at the Paris Exhibition, and a raise and drop shed jacquard with its harness. The dyeing section continues a series on producing insoluble azo-dyes directly on cotton fibre, with chemical equations and quantities, and adds recipes for a discharge yellow on fustian, the dyestuff Nigrisin, and a test for alumina sulphate. Short trade news items are also included.