Two pages from The Textile Mercury containing the 'Designing' column: a Madras dhootie border with colour notes, a dress fabric with silk checks on a five-shaft draft and pegging plan, and a continuing article on arranging figures (drop and reversed figures, five-end sateen distribution of figures). It also gives suggestions for woollen mantle cloth and for woollen or worsted trouserings with stripe colour sequences. The first page also carries the end of a book review on cotton finishing, reader letters on Indian yarn spinning and New Zealand flax, and a note on printed tapestry carpets.