Three pages from the Textile Mercury issue of Feb. 8, 1890 (p. 106 onward), covering weekly trade news and British patent listings. The trade news gives London silk quotations, Manchester dry goods, Nottingham lace, the Kidderminster carpet trade and wool and yarn markets, followed by company registrations and Gazette notices of partnerships dissolved. The patent section lists applications from 27-30 January 1890, published specifications, and abstracts of 1888 specifications for looms, dobbies, spinning, carding, knitting, dyeing and finishing machinery, with some mechanical drawings.