Issue No. 75 (27 September 1890) of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal covering spinning, weaving, dyeing, machinery and textile markets. It includes editorials on the uniform weaving list, piece-goods measurement, Calais lace trade labour disputes, Indian factory laws and the Nijni Novgorod fair. Technical items include a new artificial indigo process, a designing column with figured-cloth designs and a dress diagonal pegging plan, and an illustrated description of Samuel Walker's Patent Positive Dobby. It also has notes on Indian textile fibres, silk in Bengal, Turkish carpet manufacture, foreign correspondence, market reports, patents and company news.