Issue No. 157 (23 April 1892) of the Manchester trade weekly The Textile Mercury. It covers the cotton, jute, linen, hosiery and silk trades, including wage reductions in Dundee, a cotton trade dispute and strikes, and exhibiting at the Chicago exhibition. Technical items include an installment of 'The Analysis of Pattern' on setts (reed and warp counts in different regional systems, with a dress-goods design drawdown), silk dyeing methods, dyewood extracts, ramie, and engine improvements. There are also essays on the etymology of corduroy and 'The Customary Weaver', plus book reviews, patent abstracts, market reports, Gazette news and advertisements.