A single page from The Textile Mercury of April 18, 1891, covering British textile trade news. It lists new joint-stock companies (calico printers, engineers, dyers, hosiery and woollen manufacturers), Gazette notices of bankruptcies and dissolved partnerships, and published patent specifications with abstracts. The abstracts cover spinning, combing, stop-motions, twist-lace machines, loom selvage forming and weft cutting, and a patent for a colour system based on the musical scale.