Issue No. 87 of the Manchester weekly trade journal The Textile Mercury, dated 20 December 1890, covering the cotton, woollen, worsted, carpet, silk, and dyeing industries. It carries editorials and news on labour disputes (Kidderminster carpet overtime, Manningham Mills strike, Oldham wages), damp cotton, the Indian Factory Commission, the M'Kinley tariff, and the Yorkshire trade depression. Technical content includes a Designing section with new dress-fabric novelties and union-cloth weave drafts (Designs 213 and 213a), an illustrated improved yarn stretcher, an article on coal-tar and alizarine colours, and patent abstracts for looms, shuttles, and spinning machines. The issue also has market reports, company registrations, local news, and a directory of machinery makers.

Type

Periodical

Date

December 20, 1890

Language

English

Pages

18

Weaving drafts

on 2 pages: 6, 7

Archive notes

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