WHEREBY BROCADES & TISSUES IN GOLD, SILVER, AND SILK, GOLD OR SILVER AND SILK, OR SILK ONLY, ARE GREATLY IMPROVED
Year: 1750

page_text: BATCHELER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BATCHELER, of the Old Artillery Ground, in the Liberty of the Tower of
London, Weaver, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Batcheler, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
that at a considerable expence and trouble, by the means and assistance of
Jabez Stephenson, of Saint Mathew, Bethnal Green, in the County of
Middlesex, Weaver, (who had sold all his interest in the art or mistery here-
after mentioned to me, the Petitioner,) I had discovered and brought to per-
fection a new Invention "WHEREBY BROCADES & TISSUES IN GOLD, SILVER, AND
SILK, GOLD OR SILVER AND SILK, OR SILK ONLY, ARE GREATLY IMPROVED," which
had never yet been performed by any other person or persons within His said
Majestie's Dominions, or, to the best of my knowledge or beleif, in any other
part of the world, save by me and the said Jabez Stephenson, and that I did
apprehend that the Invention aforesaid would not only enable the English to
vie with, but excell, the French, or any other foreign manufacturers, in the
making of such brocades and tissues; His Majesty, therefore, being willing to
give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick
good, by His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date the Sixth day of this instant month of February, in the twenty-third year
of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did
give and grant unto me, the said Jolin Batcheler, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said John Batcheler, my executors, administrators, and assigns,

page_text: and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John Batcheler, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, for and
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and might lawfully make,
se, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of the Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said John Batcheler, should seem
meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said John Batcheler, by a writing under my hand and seal, duly to be inrolled
within four kalendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, particularly to describe & ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as by the said
Letters Patent may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Batcheler, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby declare that my said Invention for Making or
Weaving Brocades or Tissues in Gold, Silver, and Silk, Gold or Silver and
Silk, or Silk only, is to be performed in the manner hereafter expressed,
to wit:-
It may be done several ways to answer the same effect; but the easiest
method is by the pattern readers taking where it is found to be necessary with
each potlart (in reading or taking off from the check'd paper the pattern to
be wove), one or more cords of the adjoyning colour or colours.
Another method is by marking or painting on the ruled or check'd paper or
pattern one or more cord or cords on the edges of the colours to be taken up
by the pattern reader in reading or taking off with the colour so edged, and in
the loom to be drawn with the same, or otherwise by reading or taking off the
cord or cords, marked as aforesaid, as a lash by itself imediately to go before
or follow after the colour adjoining, & when worked in the loom to be drawn
with it. As it is extream difficult in a manufacture, which consists of so great
a variety of parts, to describe its method of acting so clearly as not to leave
the least opportunity of imitating it, with some very small variation, it is
thought necessary to observe that in the first description relating to the pattern
readers taking with each potlart, where it is found necessary, one or more
cords of the adjoinining colour or colours. It may not always be found abso-
lutely necessary to take the additional cord or cords with every individual
potlart; but it will in general where there is more than one colour.
The method always practised hitherto in making brocades or tissues bath
been to let each potlart contain no more cords than are marked or painted on
the ruled or check'd paper; and if, through any error of the pattern reader or

page_text: weaver, a cord or cords of the adjoyning colour or colours hath been taken in
and drawn with it, the weaver, on discovering of it, esteeming it to be wrong,
hath cut it out, as has been the case in a very great number of instances.
But in this new method the effect is produced by an addičonal cord or cords,
taken in reading & drawn when weaving, in such parts of the Figure as are
found necessary. The old method makes each colour (on the same line across
the work) stop where the other colour begins; but in this new method the
adjoining colour or colours, where it is found necessary, are taken, & close into
each other the breadth of one or more cords.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Batcheler, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of May, in the twenty-third year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty.
JOHN BATCHELER.
EDWARDS.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt), in the presence of
JOHN MOORE.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Thirtieth day of May aforesaid,
the said John Batcheler came before our Lord the King in His Chancery,
& acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein con-
tained & specified, in form above said. And the said Writing was stampt
according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.