Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for the textile industries, dated 6 December 1890. It mixes trade news and commentary (the McKinley Tariff, Bradford exports to the US, wage and eight-hour questions, the Indian Factory Commission) with technical articles. These include a weave-design article on woollens and worsteds, a fancy silk spot design, twilled linen dress checks, calico-printing recipes, new dyestuffs, and a smoke consumer for mill boilers. There are also short pieces on ancient Peruvian textiles, textile archaeology in Germany and North American Indian textiles, plus market reports, patents, a directory of machinery makers and advertisements.