A two-page extract from The Textile Mercury covering textile machinery and dyeing. It describes Rosskothen's Patent Quick Traverse Single-Thread Winder, made by Joseph Stubbs of Manchester, with an engraving, and adds a omitted paragraph on Blezard's Patent "True" Temple. The second page has articles on dyeing heavy woollen piece goods (indigo hydrosulphite vat, azo and alizarine dyes), the mixed indigo and indophenol vat, and dye recipes for worsted and wool.