Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for spinners, manufacturers, machinists, bleachers and colourists, dated 8 November 1890. It covers trade and tariff news (the new French tariff, the McKinley Tariff and U.S. protection), labour disputes, silk culture, machinery descriptions (Arnfield's yarn soaping, blueing and finishing machine), and dyeing, including half-silk ribbons, aniline black and coal-tar colours. It also has a piece on Oriental carpet weaving by Professor Lessing, a Kidderminster carpet trade report, market reports, patent lists and a directory of machinery makers. A Designing page includes weaving draft grids for numbered designs and a Dhootie border.