Issue of the British trade weekly The Textile Mercury for 21 May 1892, covering the cotton, wool, silk, flax and jute industries. Articles include Swedish embroideries (with illustrated purses, a key bag and a wall screen), a Chinese hand-loom fabric report, cotton growing in Central Asia, dyeing and printing notes (alizarine colours, indigo discharges, azo-dyes), and a designing column with weave diagrams for corkscrew, rib and twill weaves for milled woollens. It also has a paper on English brocades and figured silks, technical instruction in silk manufacture, local trade news from Lancashire and Scotland, market reports, trade-union commentary and advertisements, including those for Singer and Unbreakable Pulleys.