A two-page 'Designing' column from The Textile Mercury giving new fabric designs for manufacturers, with written colouring, warp and weft particulars (reed, picks per inch, yarn counts) and draft/pegging diagrams. It covers woollens, worsteds, dress fabrics, a fancy stripe in cotton matting or canvas cloth, an African stripe on 12 shafts, and a worsted coating on 16 shafts. Page 1 also carries unrelated trade news, a New York correspondent's report and replies to readers' queries.