Issue of the British weekly trade paper The Textile Mercury, dated April 9, 1892 in the page headers. It covers the cotton, wool, silk, jute and flax trades with editorial commentary on the Lancashire cotton crisis, Board of Trade returns, Egyptian flax and cotton, and the Rating of Machinery Bill. Technical items include silk dyeing, printing of woollen piece-goods, cotton dress goods designs with drafts and pegging plans, twilled checks, and an improved differential motion for slubbing and roving frames by Dobson and Barlow. The issue also has local trade news from Lancashire towns and Scotland, textile market reports, patents, company and Gazette news, and advertisements.