A NEW OR IMPROVED TEXTILE FABRIC
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Irving Holdsworth, Tom Holdsworth,
and John Holdsworth, of Shaw Lodge Mills, Halifax, in the
County of York, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED TEXTILE FABRIC."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Irving Holds-
worth, Tom Holdsworth, and John Holdsworth at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 22nd
April 1871.
We, WILLIAM IRVING HOLDSWORTH, TOM HOLDSWORTH, and JOHN
HOLDSWORTH, of Shaw Lodge Mills, Halifax, in the County of York,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED TEXTILE FABRIC," to be as follows:-
This fabric is intended for window hangings and similar purposes,
and consists of an ordinary plain rep or other ground in any desirable
color interspersed with stripes, of figures in various designs and colours,
produced in such manner that both sides of the fabric are alike.

page_text: In the manufacture of this fabric we have the warp for the ground,
and for the several stripes on separate beams or bobbins respectively,
each beam a distinct warp. The stripe warps are by preference of silk,
but may be of any other suitable fibrous substance, as also the ground
warp, but which by preference is of worsted. In order to obtain or
produce the desired designs in colors on these warps, we first beam them
in an expanded state forming a warp much wider or the ends or
threads further than when beamed for weaving, and we tab or tack the
several ends together by a process of temporary weaving or throwing
a few shoots of weft in at intervals in the length of the warp which
maintains them in proper position during the process of printing by
ordinary blocks or cylinders in a similar manner as in printing fabrics,
the design on the printing surface, however, being enlarged in the
direction of the width of the warp in proportion to its expanded state,
which expanding is done for the purpose of having each thread separated
from the others so that the colouring may permeate thoroughly each
end or thread. These warps are then beamed or wound on bobbins
to the proper width for the weaving, and the bobbins arranged suitably
in the loom when the fabric is woven by means of ordinary jacquards or
other indicating apparatus, or in some cases with healds in the usual
manner according to the kind of fabric to be produced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
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filed by the said William Irving Holdsworth, Tom Holdsworth,
and John Holdsworth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
WILLIAM
IRVING HOLDSWORTH, TOM HOLDSWORTH, and JOHN HOLDSWORTH, of
Shaw Lodge Mills, Halifax, in the County of York, Manufacturers,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign,, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said William Irving Holdsworth,
Tom Holdsworth, and John Holdsworth, Her special licence that we, the

page_text: said William Irving Holdsworth, Tom Holdsworth, and John Holds-
worth, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said William Irving Holdsworth, Tom Holdsworth, and John
Holdsworth, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
5 time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED TEXTILE FABRIC," upon the condition
o (amongst others) that we, the said William Irving Holdsworth, Tom
Holdsworth, and John Holdsworth, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our or their, or one of our or their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
5 and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Irving Holdsworth,
Tom Holdsworth, and John Holdsworth, do hereby declare the nature
of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :—
This fabric is intended for window hangings, and similar purposes,
and consists of an ordinary plain rep or other ground in any desirable
colour interspersed with stripes, of figures in various designs and
colours, produced in such manner that both sides of the fabric are
alike.
In the manufacture of this fabric we have the warp for the ground, and
for the several stripes on separate beams or bobbins respectively, each
being a distinct warp. The stripe warps are, by preference, of silk, but
may be of any other suitable fibrous substance, as also the ground warp,
but which by preference is of worsted. In order to obtain or produce
the desired designs in colours on these warps we first beam them in an
expanded state, forming a warp much wider, or the ends or threads
further apart than when beamed for weaving, and we tab or tack the
several ends together by a process of temporary weaving or throwing
a few shoots of weft in at intervals in the length of the warp which
maintains them in proper position during the process of printing by

page_text: having both sides alike in figures and designs of various colours, in
manner and for purposes substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Irving Holdsworth, for
and on behalf of myself and the said Tom Holdsworth and
John Holdsworth, have hereunto set my hand and scal, this
Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named William
Irving Holdsworth, in the
presence of
W*. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
W. I. HOLDSWORTH. (L.S.)
Halifax & Bradford.