Issue of the Manchester trade weekly The Textile Mercury for January 2, 1892, covering the cotton, wool, flax, silk, carpet and dyeing trades. It has articles on the French embroidery industry, the McKinley tariff, Italian, Russian and Welsh textiles, textile imports into Constantinople, wool growing in Aleppo and early New England textiles. It also has a long illustrated description of the new Stockport Ring Spinning Company mills, with machinery supplied by Brooks and Doxey. A designing column on pages 8-9 gives spring-pattern woollen and worsted designs with drafts, pegging plans and colouring and weft instructions. Other sections cover new dyes, machinery and power transmission, book reviews, foreign correspondence, labour and factory regulations, market reports, company registrations and patent machinery engravings.

Type

Periodical

Date

January 2, 1892

Language

English

Pages

21

Weaving drafts

on 2 pages: 8, 9

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