Issue No. 67 of The Textile Mercury, a weekly British trade journal for the textile industries, dated August 2, 1890. It combines trade news and market reports (cotton, wool, flax and jute, silk, hosiery and lace, carpets) with technical articles. These include the manufacture of gold and silver plate and thread for headings in Eastern cloths, a design lesson on gauze and doup weaving with point-paper drafts and pegging plans (Designs 170 and 171, Figures 24 and 25), a fancy stripe, a Galatea stripe and a tartan check, and dyeing notes and recipes (fixing tannin, alizarine blacks, oil mordants). Also included are foreign correspondence, labour news, the Dobson and Barlow centenary, City and Guilds examination results, and patent lists with small engraved machine drawings.

Type

Periodical

Date

August 2, 1890

Language

English

Pages

16

Weaving drafts

on 2 pages: 6, 7

Archive notes

Digital photography