Issue of the British trade weekly The Textile Mercury for 27 February 1892, covering the Lancashire cotton, wool, linen, jute, hosiery and lace trades. It carries labour news (strikes at Nelson and Accrington, cotton operatives' reaction to pension schemes), trade statistics, and commentary on American linen and the Chicago Exhibition. The technical pages include a designing column with spot and sateen diagrams, an original dobby design for reversible cotton vesting fabrics, new machinery notices (a drum winding frame, a ribbon loom), dyeing articles, and patent abstracts.