Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal, dated June 4, 1892. It covers the cotton, silk, lace, hosiery, jute and linen trades, with articles on trade with Hankow, the silk plush trade, Oldham mill companies and loom maintenance, wages in the Nottingham lace trade, new mills and engines, dye-stuff notices, and local and foreign news. It includes new shirting and extra weft spot figure designs with drafts and pegging plans, technical education examination questions (calico printing, lace manufacture, weaving), market reports, financial news and patents.