Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal, dated May 14, 1892. It covers the textile trade and industry news of the time: strikes and lock-outs in Russia and Lancashire, Board of Trade returns, US tariff and reciprocity matters, the silk and lace curtain industries, new dyes (Geranine reds), and market reports for cotton and yarns. It also has a design column with a gingham diagonal fabric and pegging plans for an 8-shaft cotton blouse material, illustrated machinery descriptions (Hurst viscometer, Devoge piano card stamping machine, variable traverse motion, Bates mill engines), a paper on English brocades and figured silks, and City and Guilds cotton spinning exam questions.