An issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester trade weekly, covering the wool, cotton, linen, silk and jute trades. It includes articles on the French wool trade and proposed duties, Greek carpets, artificial silk, trades-union relations, the oil-cloth and linen industries, and the Board of Trade returns. Technical features cover wool dyeing methods and mordanting, indigo valuation, and weave analysis (part III) with small weave designs, peg plans and magnified thread diagrams. Other items cover a nosing motion for mules, Lovibond's tintometer with a discussion, sericulture in Asia Minor, district trade reports, textile markets, gazette news, patent abstracts and a directory of makers.