AN ART OR MISTERY OF IMBOSSING, PRINTING, OR STAINING CALLIMANCOES, AND ALSO A FURTHER VALUABLE AND GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE IMBOSSING TRADE, BY SHADING THE COLOURS ON ALL SORTS OF WOOLLEN GOODS
Year: 1754

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BOWSER, late of the Parish of Saint Luke, in the County of Middlesex, but now
of the Parish of Allhallows the Great, in the City of London, Imbosser, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said George Bowser, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His present Majesty that I had, by much application, time,
and study, and at very great expence, found out and discovered "AN ART OR
MISTERY OF IMBOSSING, PRINTING, OR STAINING CALLIMANCOES, AND ALSO A
FURTHER VALUABLE AND GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE IMBOSSING TRADE, BY SHADING
THE COLOURS ON ALL SORTS OF WOOLLEN GOODS;" in pursuance of which Petition
His Majesty, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of July last past before the date
hereof, did give and grant unto me, the said George Bowser, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said George Bowser, my executors, adiñiors, and
assigns, by my deputy or deputies, servants or agents or others, might make
use of and exercise the said art or business of imbossing, printing, or staining
callimancoes, and also the said improvement in the imbossing trade by
shading the colours on all sorts of woollen goods, for my sole benefit
and advantage, for the term of fourteen years next ensucing the date of the
said Letters Patent, and to be compleat and ended, in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso or condition that if I, the said George Bowser,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery within four calender months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,

page_text: and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should cease
and become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said George Bowser, in pursuance of the
said recited proviso, and in compliance therewith, do, by this Instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention to be the Imbossing, Printing, or Staining Callimancoes,
and also the further Improvement in the Imbossing Trade by Shading the
Colours on all Sorts of Woollen Goods, both which arts are to be performed
in manner following (that is to say):-
The method of imbossing, printing, or staining callimancoes is, first, to
to take them as they come from the weaver's hands and cleanse them well
from the grease, after which boil them in suds prepared of white argol, alum,
and wheat bran, the proportionate quantity of which is one pound three
quarters of alum and two ounces and an half of white argol to each piece; in
which let them boil two hours, then dye them of the ground colour proposed;
after which cleanse them in fair water, and then imboss, print, or stain them
on a copper plate designed and engraved for that purpose. The method
of shading the different colours used in the imbossing on all sorts of woollen
goods is thus: Let the design or pattern be very neatly and deeply cutt or
engraved on copper plate, every way something bigger than the pattern or
design, and for every different colour to be shaded there must be a thin
plate fixt on an iron frame to fit and cover the engraved plate, which said
thin plate, or some other instrument fitted for that purpose, must be exactly
and neatly cut quite through in all such places as are wanted to shade the
colours; and, after each colour is filled upon the engraved plate through the
said thin plate (or other instrument) cut for that purpose, clean the engraved
plate before the other colours be laid on, and then put the engraved plate
into the press in the usual manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bowser, the Patentee, have to
this Instrument in writing set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth
day of October, in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Second, by the grace of God of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-four.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
GEORGE (L.s.) BOWSER.
ANTHONY HARRISON.
GERARD TUTel.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on Sixteenth day of October, in the
year above written, the above-named George Bowser came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the aforesaid Writing,
And
and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above said.
also 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.