Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly for the textile trades, dated November 29, 1890. It covers the French silk and cotton trades, cotton growing in Egypt and the Holy Land, dyes and bleaching (including bleaching by electricity), and the French and Canadian tariffs. The design section (pages 6-7) has a figured dress or mantle cloth with a point-paper drawdown (Design 205) and a four-end twill fancy check, with sett details for silk and cotton versions. It also has an illustrated history of Dobson and Barlow, Bolton textile machinery makers, local mill news, market reports, new companies, patents and a directory of machinery makers.