Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester trade weekly, dated January 16, 1892. It combines industry news and commentary (Board of Trade returns, cotton markets, trade-union and factory-law items, women's labour, tariff news) with technical articles on dyeing and printing (alizarine black, preparing wool for printing, dyers' recipes), and a Designing column with weaving drafts and pegging plans for dress goods and geometrical sateen figuring. It also has an illustrated article on Howard and Bullough's revolving flat carding engine, a serialised piece on cutting velveteen by hand and by machine, regional mill news, patent abstracts and textile market reports.