Issue No. 66 (26 July 1890) of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for spinners, manufacturers, machinists, bleachers and dyers. It carries editorial comment on the cotton and wool trades, factory inspectors' reports, tenters' wages, an article on gold and silver textile threads, book reviews, and a piece on the sateen arrangement of figures with a dhootie border draft. It also has a Continental shuttle-guard, aniline black and dyers' recipes, a letter on textiles in the United States, legal and technical education news, regional reports on West of Scotland textile industries, market reports, patents and a directory of machinery makers.