Two pages from The Textile Mercury describing an improved combined progressive steam-damping, gas-drying and stretching (tentering) machine made by J. H. Riley and Company of Bury, including its chain-and-pin stretching frame, steaming boxes, Bunsen-burner drying chamber and batching or plaiting delivery. The pages also carry the continuation of a serial paper on bleaching cotton (madder bleach, stitching, singeing) and the continuation of James Sharp's paper on the formation and fixation of fast colours on cotton, covering alizarine and coal-tar dyes.