Issue of the Manchester weekly trade journal The Textile Mercury for 9 August 1890, covering the textile industries. It combines editorial commentary, trade and consular news (Russia, Persia, Spain, Smyrna silk, the US), a piece on the Oriental carpet industry, and a design section with weaving drafts for an Indian gingham pattern, a figured dress fabric, an Indian silk or cotton counterpane, and a colour-plan tweed design (Design 172). It also has dyeing and bleaching notes (naphthols, dye-wood extracts, recipes), correspondence from India and the United States, reports on technical education and the woollen export trade, company news (J. and P. Coats), textile market reports, and the Kidderminster carpet trade.