PRINTING TEXTILE FABRICS FOR EMBROIDERY IN CROSS STITCH
Year: 1885

page_text: I, HANS DENK, of 7 Goldschmidtgasse, Vienna, Austria, Metal Engraver and
Chaser, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "PRINTING TEXTILE
FABRICS FOR EMBROIDERY IN CROSS STITCH," and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this invention is to produce a "Cross-Stitch-Print" which will
indicate the different colours in which a design is to be worked upon different
fabrics, in an easy manner upon the fabric itself. Up to the present time special
samplers and copies were necessary for this purpose. Hitherto it has only been
possible to do such work in cross stitch upon strong threaded Java fabrics; or
canvas of various kinds has been used with finer work of this sort, the threads of
which were obliged to be drawn out after the work was done.
By this invention the use of canvas as well as the use of copies are totally
unnecessary; because by my method the different necessary drawings are directly
printed upon the fabrics on which they have to be worked, with a printing type
containing differently shaped and drawn crosses, made up of dots or lines of
different kinds. In spite of the printing being executed in one colour only, it
shows by the differently shaped crosses in types, the different shades or colours in
which the cross stitch is to be executed.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1, represents a monogram; Fig. 2, another
monogram with different initials; and Fig. 3, a design for a border.
The crosses themselves are differently formed, so that a certain sort of type.
properly arranged according to requirements, will indicate a certain colour from the
peculiar shape of the crosses. Every sort of cross represents a different colour,
Figs. 1 and
having two forms of crosses A and B, showing that they are to
be worked in two different colours or shades, while in Fig. 3, four forms of
crosses A, B, C and D are employed, showing that the design is to be worked in
four different colours or shades, and also the parts which are to be worked in the
respective colours or shades. It is, therefore, easily possible to print a certain
specimen by a regular arrangement of such types, upon any fabric, so as to indicate
the different colours of which the cross stitch has to be made, by the different kinds
of types, by which means a great advantage in facilitating the production of cross
stitch work is attained, and all copies of the design are thereby rendered unnecessary,
as well as the use of canvas or "stramin" copies,

page_text: The types which all consist of cross-form are for the purpose above referred to
differently executed. The crosses are, therefore, either made of thick or thin
strokes, or merely of dots, or the same crosses consist of one thick stroke and one
thin stroke, or of one thin stroke and one dotted stroke, which are combined in the
form of a cross.
Or any other combination of strokes and dots, or other special
form of crosses may be employed for the above purpose.
By this means it is easily rendered possible not only to indicate two colours, but
a number of colours, whereby any embroidery of any number of colours is clearly
and easily indicated and executed without using any patterns whatever.
"This improved "cross-stitch-print" requires the following proceeding :-
A complete print is taken by means of the different single types which have been
above described and specified as all having cross forms, and which are arranged so
as to produce the required design.
So as to save the using of the original types too much a galvano-plastic copy or
stereotype copy is taken from the set of types representing some pattern or design
required, which galvano or stereo' is afterwards fastened to a block of wood of the
right height, so as to be able to use it in the common printing press and make.it
fit for hand printing, and so be able to multiply the specimen or pattern in question.
The patterns obtained may also be transferred to stone according to size of
pattern, or upon zinc plates, and thus render it possible to have the multiplication
of patterns done by lithography.
Further, a copy may be made upon paper according to size and the same enlarged
by the photographic process, or made smaller by the same method, and the pattern
may also be transferred upon a zinc plate and etched into the zinc in the ordinary
manner, and the pattern in question be used for printing with upon fabrics.
The essential advantage of this Invention consists in acquiring a printing plate
by differently executed types in cross form, by which one is able to print upon any
fabrics whatever a complete pattern for cross stitch embroiderers, which although
only printed in one colour, yet shows in how many colours the pattern in question
is to be executed. And further there is the advantage of any and everybody
being able to execute this sort of embroidery, so indispensably necessary for
'households, and also that the same will be much cheaper than the prints and pattern
system till now used; the cost being 50% less, and further saving of time is
effected in the execution of the same.
The design instead of being printed on the fabric from the cross form types as
described, may be printed from such types upon paper, and the design will then
have to be executed on the fabric or surface to be ornamented in the usual manner,
but,the different forms of crosses will clearly indicate the different colours to be
used in working the design!
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same to be performed; I declare that what
I claim is
The method. of indicating the parts to be worked in different colours in designs
for embroidery in cross stitch by the use of crosses of different forms, each form
representing a different colour or shade, substantially as described and shown.
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