Issue No. 63 of The Textile Mercury, a weekly British trade journal for the textile industries, dated July 5, 1890. It carries editorial comment on trade topics, including Bradford's progress, the Preston picketing case and prospects for mills in Denver, Colorado and the western United States. It also has a designing section with cotton trousering, dress fabric and mantle cloth specifications and drawdowns (Designs 147-149), machinery notices, dyeing and bleaching articles on alizarine colours, indigo, chrysamine and aniline black, news from the trade districts, market reports and patent abstracts.