Issue No. 78 (18 October 1890) of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for the textile industries. It covers labour relations in cotton spinning and weaving, strikes, the effects of the McKinley tariff, and news on cotton, wool, silk, linen, lace, hosiery and carpets. Technical items include a design section with weaving drafts and pegging plans (worsted twill, fancy dress stripe, cashmere twill gingham, cut double cloth), a new automatic narrowing and widening hosiery machine, articles on dyeing and coal-tar colours, iron mordants, and finishing cotton goods. It ends with market reports, tariff and gazette news and patent lists.