Issue of the British weekly trade journal The Textile Mercury (Manchester), dated April 2, 1892. It covers cotton, wool, jute and yarn trade news, including Brazilian cotton, Oldham mill stocktaking, the co-operative movement, a yarn-contract lawsuit and the Stalybridge strike. Technical sections include the serial "Analysis of Pattern" (part VIII, figured gauzes), a dress goods/fancy shirting design with pegging plans and drafts, bale breaker machinery, new dyestuffs and dyeing wool. It ends with market reports, tariff news and patent abstracts.