Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester trade weekly, dated January 30, 1892. It carries editorials and commentary on the cotton thread trade and price war, the Accrington spinners' strike, trades-unionism, and Indian mill labour. Technical items include part II of a series on wool dyeing methods, an improved bale breaker by Dobson and Barlow, electric transmission of power, and silk rearing in India. Regional mill news, market reports for wool, cotton, flax and jute, tariff news and patents fill the rest. One page has a colored drawdown grid of a cotton dress and shirting design.