Issue of the British weekly trade journal The Textile Mercury, dated May 28, 1892 (Manchester), covering the cotton, wool, silk, dyeing and machinery trades. It carries editorials on trades unions, factory inspection and the Bradford spinner-manufacturer dispute, a historical piece on costume, dyeing articles with recipes for wool, cotton, jute, linen and tussah silk, and the installment "The Analysis of Pattern" on cloth weights with new cotton shirting designs. It also has a review of a Stubbs hank-winding machine, foreign and local trade news, market reports, patent abstracts, and City and Guilds of London Institute examination papers in cloth weaving and silk throwing that include design and draft questions.