Two pages from The Textile Mercury of 8 March 1890 (pp. 178-179) with the Patents column, preceded by trade notes. The patents section lists published specifications and gives abstracts of 1888 British patents for ring spinning, knitting machines, heald making, twine making, dyes, heckling machines, carding-engine flats and a loom let-off motion. Page 1 also carries market reports, cotton company dividend news, a note on William Morris's socialism and Gazette notices, and page 2 ends with advertisements and an index of advertisers.