A single page from The Textile Mercury of 24 May 1890. It describes James Green and Co.'s improved patent picker steeper, a pressurized oil cylinder with a heated water jacket that saturates buffalo-hide pickers for power looms in about a week, in place of months of steeping in a tank. The page also carries a short note on Russian cotton duties and the start of an article on mordants and their use in dyeing cotton, wool and silk, using alizarine and alumina as the example.