Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester trade weekly, dated September 20, 1890. It carries editorials on weavers' abatements and tally boards, the American cotton crop and Southern mills, trade unionism, the cotton market and the lace trade, plus book reviews. A designing section on page 7 gives weaving drafts for an African stripe, a fancy stripe and worsted check designs, with notes on counts and colours. Other sections cover Greaves' smoke consumer, dyeing recipes for wool, ramie and indigo discharge printing, news in brief by region, textile markets and patent abstracts for looms and warp machines.