Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester trade weekly, dated August 30, 1890. It mixes editorial commentary and news on the lace, carpet, silk, cotton and wool trades with technical articles. These include a continuing series on gauze fabrics (doup weaving, with pegging plans and a twill draft), a report on the Bates spindle tested for the Franklin Institute, and a paper on smoke abatement appliances. The issue also has dyeing and colour notes, labour and trade-union commentary, regional news, market reports, and patent lists with drawings of machinery.