Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for the textile industries, dated November 15, 1890. It covers current topics, cotton spinning wage demands, the destruction of Arkwright's mill at Cromford, a proposed exhibition for the Blackburn Technical School, Board of Trade returns, damp in cotton, and Indian mill conditions. The designing section gives cotton vesting, cheviot and worsted coating designs with weave drawdowns and peg plans. Other sections include a book review on colour and check patterns, machinery notices, dyeing and bleaching recipes, foreign correspondence, textile markets, the new French tariff, patent abstracts and a directory of machinery makers.