Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for the textile industries, dated November 1, 1890. It covers industry news and commentary (the Indian Factory Commission, the French silk industry, Indian cotton, the McKinley Tariff, strikes in Australia and Calais, cotton market prices and false packing of East India cotton), with sections on machinery, dyeing and bleaching (coal-tar azo colours, dyeing half-silk ribbons, weighting silk), and patents. Textile design content includes a new fancy diagonal for cotton, linen and silk dress goods and figured mantle or dress cloths, with draft and drawdown diagrams on pages 6-7. Other items include a piece on weaving and mythology, the first part of Professor Lessing's essay on Oriental carpet weaving, jute relay-system notes, market reports, and a directory of machinery makers.

Type

Periodical

Date

November 1, 1890

Language

English

Pages

18

Weaving drafts

on 2 pages: 6, 7

Archive notes

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