A NEW MODE OF DECORATING THE WALLS OF APARTMENTS IN IMITATION OF FINE CLOTH, WITHOUT JOINT, SHAM, OR SHADE, BY MEANS OF CEMENTING FLOCK, ON WALLS OF PLAISTER, WOOD, LINEN, OR PAPER
Year: 1806

page_text: FRICKER & CLARKE'S SPECIFICATION. -
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TO AEL TO, WHOM. THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I RICHARD
CLARKE, of Manor Street, in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, in the County.
of Middlesex, Paperhanging Manufacturer, send greeting.
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing:date.at
Westminster, the First day of August, in the forty-sixth year of His reigni
give and grant unto Thomas Fricker, of New Bond Street, 'in the Parish of
Saint George, Hanover Square, in the said County of Middlesex, Paper-
hanger, and me, the said Richard Clarke, His éspecial licence that the said
Thomas Fricker, and I, the said Richard Clarke, during the term of years
therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend;
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention
therein mentioned of "A NEW MODE OF DECORATING THE WALLS OF APARTMENTS
IN IMITATION OF FINE CLOTH, WITHOUT JOINT, SHAM, OR SHADE, BY MEANS OF
CEMENTING FLOCK, ON WALLS OF PLAISTER, WOOD, LINEN, OR PAPER;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging the said Thomas
Fricker, and me, the said Richard Clarke, or one of us, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us,
to cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after the date of
such Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Clarke, do hereby declare that the said Iuvention is described and
performed in manner herein-after mentioned (that is to say) :-
The said Invention is a Method of Decorating the Walls of Apartments in
Imitation of Fine Cloth, of various Colours and Mixtures of Colours, and on
the Walls of Apartments of Plaister, Wood, Linen, Paper, or any Composition,
without Joint, Seam, or Shade, or the Appearance of any Joint, Seam, or
Shade throughout the whole Room, and is performed in the following
manner: The walls are first prepared for the reception of the flock by being
pumiced smooth and even, and then washed wholly over with strong size, and
suffered to dry. A second coat of size is then put on, stained with the colour
of which the flock is intended to be a mixture, consisting of one part of the
mastic or composition made in the manner after described, and three parts of
colour the same as the flock intended, ground in oil, well boiled together;
must then be put on the walls, by means of brushes, over the second coat of
size, which should be perfectly dry, very smooth and even; after which the
flock is to be thrown on whilst the latter composition or mastic is wet, by
means of an apparatus, consisting of a receiving box to hold the flock, with
bellows at top and bottom of one side to force out the flock through a hole in
the center of the opposite side of the box; and also with a machine similar to
that used for hair powder (except that the aperture at the small end is open,
instead of having gauze or wire before it), to be used occasionally, whereby
the flock is attached to the walls in every part required; care being taken that
it is thrown smooth and equal in all parts. When dry, it bears the appearance
of fine cloth, and is equally close, firm, and strong. The mastic or composition
above mentioned is made in the following manner:-To one gallon of linseed
oil add one gallon of spirits of turpentine and one pound of gum anima; boil
them well together until of the consistency of tar. The flock is composed of
the refuse or cuttings of woollen cloth, or of cotton or silk, previously dyed the
colour or colours desired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Clarke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and six
RICHP CLARKE. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-ninth day of
August, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Richard Clarke came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification, aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year abovo
written.