Two pages from the Designing column of The Textile Mercury giving new textile designs with drawdowns. Covers a 5-end sateen figured dress fabric (Design 177), an Indian dhootie bought in Allahabad with its colour key (Design 178 grid), a 32-shaft woollen suiting with a weft figure twilling over a warp twill ground, and settings for gingham and zephyr check cloths. Includes sett, yarn counts and warp colour patterns. The first page also carries unrelated editorial text on a trades union congress and silkworm rearing.