Two pages from The Textile Mercury of April 4, 1891, with short trade items on textile machinery and industry. The main piece describes Barker and Wilson's patent doffing comb motion for carding engines, with side and plan view figures. Other items cover a sisal fibre decorticating machine, the opening of a cotton spinning mill in Bombay, Birchenough's patented swivel power loom for figured silk goods, Egyptian silk manufacture, and a section of a serial on bleaching colored headings.