Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester weekly trade journal for the textile industries, dated March 19, 1892. It carries editorials and trade commentary on tariffs, the Canadian and German markets, the silk depression, labour disputes and the Indian Factory Act. Technical content includes cotton dress-goods and check designs with weaving drafts and colour arrangements, a profile of Howard and Bullough's Accrington machine works with a foldout view, a new loom let-off mechanism, electric power for St. Etienne ribbon looms, orange colours for calico printing, and dyers' recipes. It closes with news in brief, market reports, company registrations and patent abstracts.