A two-page article from The Textile Mercury of 6 September 1890 in the "Designing" column, giving new designs for dobby and jacquard cloth with drawdowns and pegging plans. It covers fancy diagonals for dress material and vestings, a fancy satin diagonal, mantle cloths, Galatea striped linen and shirtings in 4- and 8-end twills. Each design comes with reed, yarn counts, picks per inch, warp stripe sequences and suggested colourings. A short piece on arranging a floral spray (Figure 24) in sateen order for printed design follows. The first page also opens with the end of a piece on Samuel Slater and the Pawtucket cotton mill centenary.