A single page from The Textile Mercury of 21 February 1891 combining company and financial news with abstracts of British textile patent specifications. It lists new companies (cotton mills, silk mills, a copper roller syndicate, a chlorine process company), Gazette notices, and patent abstracts from September 1889 on spinning, looms and shedding mechanisms, shuttle-box swells, gig-mills, knitting machines, flax breaking and dyeing. Machinery diagrams accompany several of the patents.