A NEW MODE OF PRODUCING CERTAIN PATTERNS IN CERTAIN WOVEN GOODS.
Year: 1836

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
HAWTHORNTHWAITE, of Kendal, in the County of Westmorland, Weaver, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventh day of May, in the sixth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His' heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Matthew "Hawthornthwaite, His especial license, that I, the said Matthew
Hawthornthwaite, my exórs, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Matthew Hawthornthwaite, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW MODE OF PRODUCING CERTAIN PATTERNS IN
CERTAIN WOVEN GOODS.;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Matthew Hawthornthwaite, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to
cause the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Matthew Hawthornthwaite, do hereby declaro the nature of my said Invention
to consist in making a designed ground under a floated weft, in such manner
that when the weft is cut the design or pattern will be exhibited. And in
further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Matthew Hawthorn-
thwaite, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be
performed, by the following statement thereof, that is to say:
Having wove a fabric with the weft floated in such manner that when cut,
and if long felted, it will produce what is commonly called a cut velvet
appearance, either in stripes or bars, or otherwise, and in such manner also
that the ground under the said floated weft shall be a colored line or stripe, or
other designed pattern suited to the breadth of the space covered by the
length of the float, I proceed in the usual way to cut the floated weft by a
cutting knife, such as is used in tho manufacture of woollen cords, and if the
float is very long, and the pile, when' the float is cut, long in consequence, I
felt the pile by washing in the usual way, and then crop it, as practiced in the
manufacture of toilinetts, and the ground under the part cut will tlius
exhibit whatever colored stripe, design, or pattern may have been wove or
thrown up by the warp or weft, either or both, in the said weaving under the
floated weft. And whereas I claim as my Invention weaving woollen, cotton,
silk, and other the like fabrics with a coloured line; stripe, pattern; or other
design produced the warp or weft, either or both, under a floated weft,' and
then cutting the said floated weft, and, if long, felting it and cropping. it, and
thereby exhibiting between the two parts of the cut floated weft- the colored
line or stripe, pattern, or other design so wove under the float, as aforesaid..
And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely
new, and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my
Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specifica-
tion doth comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the
proviso in the said herein-before in' part recited Letters Patent contained;

page_text: wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my
said Invention.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth
day of June, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.