Issue No. 77 (11 October 1890) of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for spinners, manufacturers, bleachers, colourists and merchants. It covers trade news (Russian flax, the Egyptian cotton crop, Board of Trade returns, the Calais lace lock-out, the new American tariff), articles on dyeing and printing (printing blue on Congo red, the effect of oiling wool on dyeing), and machinery notices (a hank stretching machine, plough-ground card clothing, ring frame bobbins). The design section gives two dress-stripe designs (188 and 189) with a weaving draft and warp/weft particulars, followed by market reports, regional mill news, tariff schedules, company and financial news, and patent abstracts.