Issue of the Manchester trade weekly The Textile Mercury for 12 July 1890, covering the cotton, wool, linen, silk and lace trades. Contents include editorials on trade and labour matters (Oldham holidays, the Rating of Machinery Bill, Liverpool cotton speculation), the article series "Textiles and Their Titles" on the origins of fabric names, a designing section with a drawdown and pegging plans for fancy dress stripes, and a notice of the Dobson and Barlow centenary. Further sections cover machinery (a reel stop-motion, an automatic spooler), bleaching, dyeing and printing (Nigrisine, Turkey red, water in dyeing), foreign correspondence from India and the US, Belgian flax culture, the Austro-Hungarian cotton industry, market reports, company news, and patent abstracts.

Type

Periodical

Date

July 12, 1890

Language

English

Pages

18

Weaving drafts

on 2 pages: 6, 7

Archive notes

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