Improvements in Flat Embroidering Designs, applicable for what is known as Moldavian, Embroidery.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar., 1891--Accepted, 25th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flat Embroidering Designs, applicable for what is
known as Moldavian, Embroidery.
I, NATHAN FRIEDBERGER, of 29, Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris, in the Republic
of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in the methods of producing
designs for embroidery on suitable fabric and more particularly in the style of
embroidery known as the Moldavian.
The invention consists in printing upon the cloth or fabric to be embroidered in
addition to the outlines of the design, series of parallel lines whereby the size or
length of the stitches and the distance between them are exactly indicated so that
when the work is finished they cannot fail to offer a neat and regular appearance.
The lines indicating the stitches need not however be necessarily supplemented
by the outlines of the design, which their relative length will alone be sufficient to
suggest; and in either case lack of symmetry and regularity is avoided by printing
each stitch beforehand.
The style of embroidery to which this invention specially refers is generally
carried out either on canvas, such as is used for tapestry or coarse cloth and to obtain
regularity the threads or meshes are counted the outline alone of the design
being sketched out beforehand. It will be readily understood however that such a
method rendered it exceedingly difficult to form regular stitches throughout, besides
necessitating a model or pattern to work from without which it would be impossible
to know the direction in which the stitches are to run.
By this improved method regular stitches are necessarily obtained, their proper
direction or position cannot be missed and the work is altogether simplified and
placed within reach of even unskilled persons.
Dated this 7th day of February 1891
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flat Embroidering Designs, applicable for what is
known as Moldavian Embroidery.
I, NATHAN FRIEDBERGER, of 29, Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris, in the Republic
of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the
same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
This invention relates to certain improvements in the methods of producing
designs for embroidery on suitable fabrics and more particularly in the style of
embroidery known as the Moldavian.
As will be seen from the accompanying drawing the invention consists in printing
upon the cloth or fabric to be embroidered, in addition to the outlines of the
design, series of parallel lines whereby the size or length of the stitches and the
distance between them are exactly indicated so that when the work is finished
they cannot fail to offer a neat and regular appearance.
The lines indicating the stitches need not, however be necessarily supplemented
by the outlines of the design, which their relative length will alone be sufficient
to suggest, and in either case lack of symmetry and regularity is avoided by
printing each stitch beforehand.

page_text: The style of embroidery to which this invention specially refers is generally
carried out either on canvas, such as is used for tapestry or coarse cloth, and to
obtain regularity the threads or meshes are counted, the outline alone of the design
being sketched out beforehand. It will be readily understood, however, that such
a method rendered it exceedingly, difficult to form regular stitches throughout,
besides necessitating, a model or pattern to work from, without which it would be
impossible to know the direction in which the stitches are to run.
By this improved method regular stitches are necessarily obtained, their proper
direction or position cannot be missed and the work is altogether simplified, and
placed within reach of even unskilled persons.
Having now particularly described and 'ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I déclare 'that what
claim is
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An improvement in designs carried out in flat, or what is known as " Moldavian'
embroidery, consisting in printing upon the fabric small parallel strokes thereby
indicating both the length of the stitches to be formed and their distance apart
and with or without the outline of the design substantially, as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 24th day of March 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant."