Issue of The Textile Mercury, a British weekly trade journal for the textile industries, dated August 16, 1890. It carries editorials on yarn and cloth futures, French tariffs, a strike and boycott at Melrose Mill in Oldham, and Paisley's sewing-cotton industry. The technical section has fabric designs (Oxford shirting, fancy waistcoatings, dress goods) with drafts and pegging plans, plus articles on horse-hair cloth weaving at Sheffield, bleaching, fast dyes for carpet yarn and aniline dyes in China. Other items include a report on ancient Graeco-Roman and Egyptian textiles at the Whitworth Institute, a piece on the Dundee jute industry, market reports, patent lists and a directory of machinery makers.