Issue No. 86 of the Manchester weekly trade journal The Textile Mercury, dated 13 December 1890. It covers the cotton, wool, silk, flax and jute trades, with editorials on tariffs, the Factory Acts and the financial crisis, plus articles on early Chinese textile designs and weaving among the ancient Germans. Technical content includes designs for spring vestings and low woollens and worsteds (with draft diagrams and a pegging plan), an improved Heilmann cotton comber, a yarn beam drag for jute looms, mordants and bleaching for dyers, patents, market reports, company registrations and a directory of machinery makers.