A single page from The Textile Mercury of January 3, 1891, mainly listing British textile patents: specifications published and abstracts of 1889 applications covering knitting, spinning, doffing, twisting, looms and dobbies, embroidering machines, reeling, and dyes. It also carries a short report on the Kidderminster carpet trade and a new-company notice for D. and D. H. Fraser, Limited. Line drawings of a doffing clip, a dobby mechanism and a reeling machine accompany the abstracts.