Issue of the Manchester weekly trade journal The Textile Mercury for 23 August 1890, covering the spinning, weaving, dyeing, silk, lace and hosiery industries. It has editorial comment on free trade, protectionism, the McKinley tariff and labour disputes, along with foreign correspondence and market reports. The designing section gives pegging plans and details for linen and cotton stripe fabrics, followed by a piece on gauze fabrics with drafts and drawdowns. Other items cover Hetherington's improved spinning mule, dyeing and bleaching notes, the Burnley coloured weaving price list, Dundee and Kidderminster trade news, and patent abstracts with loom and Jacquard drawings.