Two-page article from The Textile Mercury (8 March 1890) in its Machinery and Appliances column. It describes Holden and Co.'s patent stop motion doubling winding frame for bobbins or cops, with a heart-motion traverse, a special thread guide and a quick stop motion. It also covers the Smith Patents Engineering Co.'s concave spiral cutter blades for cloth shearing machines. Short notes follow on the hosiery trade in Brazil and on the superstition about red underwear.