NEW KIND OF GOODS CALLED VELVATEENS, BEING AN IMPROVEMENT ON VELVARETS, AND FAR SUPERIOR TO THE COMMON METHOD OF WEAVING VELVARETS, BY WHICH MEANS THE PILE IS RICHER AND CLOSER, AND NEARLY. RESEMBLES A COTTON VELVET
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JAMES WOOLSTENHOLME, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Weaver,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the sixteenth year of His reign,
did grant unto me, the said James Woolstenholme, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole privi-
ledge and authority, that I, the said James Woolstenholme, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or
by mine and their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said James Woolstenholme, my executors, adñiors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend my "NEW KIND OF GOODS CALLED VELVATEENS,
BEING AN IMPROVEMENT ON VELVARETS, AND FAR SUPERIOR TO THE COMMON
METHOD OF WEAVING VELVARETS, BY WHICH MEANS THE PILE IS RICHER AND
CLOSER, AND NEARLY. RESEMBLES A COTTON VELVET," within that part of His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said James
Woolstenholme, my executors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should in
their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said James Woolstenholme, my
executors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during

page_text: the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said James Woolstenholme, my exe-
cutors, admiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date thereof next and immediately ensuing, and fully
to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided; in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I,
the said James Woolstenholme, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calender months next and immediately after the date thereof, that then
the said recited Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding,
as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Woolstenholme, do hereby
declare my said Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in
manner following (that is to say):-
AN EXPLANATION OF JAMES WOOLSTENHOLME'S INVENTION OF VELVATEENS,
described in Three Classes.
Velveteen No. 1, the first class velvetines.-The warp is made of linen yarn
in the brown, of any width, from sixteen to one hundred and eight inches, the
shute cotton, with a plain back and jean face, and is wove with three, four, or
five tuffters, according to the fineness of the reed, and in proportion to the
length of the pile intended to be made; whereas in the common method of
weaving velveretts it only will produce a plain face, and that only wove with
two tuffters. The tuffters in velvateens always take one half of the warp, as
every other thread in the warp is used for tuffting, and the other half of the
warp goes all into one heald, or into two or three tyed together to make one
binding shead, and whether the tuffters be upon three, four, or five healds,
they make the other binding shead. These sort of velvateens are wove with
four healds, three of which takes every other thread of the warp which wee
call tuffters, and the remainder all goes into one heald, or two tyed together,
to make a binder. Velvateen No. 2 is made in the same way as No. 1, only
wth a cotton warp instead of a linnen warp, and also in the brown. Vel-
vateen No. 3 is made the same as No. 1, but the warp is different, being

page_text: made of silk and cotton twist, and the weft of the same.
Velvateen No. 4 is
made the same as No. 1, but the warp is single cotton, bleached and sized,
with selvidges made of silk and cotton twist; the shute is cotton. Velvateen
No. 5 is made the same as No. 1, but the warp is double cotton twist,
bleached and sized, with silk and cotton twist selvidged. Velvateen No. 6 is
made the same as No. 1, but the warp is worsted, and the shute also worsted.
Velvateen No. 7 is made the same as No. 1, but the warp and suit are both
mowhair. Velvateen No. 8 is made the same as No. 1, but the warp and
shute are both silk. Velvateen No. 9 is made the same as No. 1, but the
warp is cotton twist, the shute is cotton and worsted twist. Velvateen No. 10
is made the same as No. 1, but the warp is cotton twist, the shute is cotton.
and mowhair twist. Velvateen No. 11 is made the same as No. 1, but the
shutes is worsted instead of cotton. Velvateen No. 12 is made the same as
No. 1, but the warp is cotton, and the shute is worsted. Velvateen No. 13
is made the same as No. 1, but the warp is linen, and the shute silk. Vel-
vateen No. 14 is made the same as No. 1, but the warp is cotton, and the
shute is silk. Velvateen No. 15 is made the same as No. 1, but the warp is
linen, and the shute is mowhair. Velvateen No. 16 is made the same as
No. 1, but the warp is cotton, and the shute mowhair. Velvateen No. 17 is
made the same as No. 1, but the warp is linen, and the shute is linen and
worsted twist. Velvateen No. 18 is made the same as No. 1, but the warp is
cotton, and the shute cotton and linnen twist.
The second class of velvateens are jean back and jean face, and are made
of the same materials as the first class contained under the eighteen different
sorts, and only differs in the method of weaving (viz¹), they are wove with six
healds, three of them takes each other thread of the warp, which we likewise
call tuffters, and the rest of the warp goes into the other three healds to make
the binding sheds.
The third class of velvateens are made of the same materials as the first
class contained under eighteen different sorts, and only differs in the method
of weaving (viz), they are wove with twelve healds, six of them take one half
of the warp used for tufters, and the other half goes into the other six healds
to make a jean back double bound, and so in proportion to make any length
of pile required. Likewise velvateen cords are made of the same materials as
any that are before mentioned under the eighteen different sorts, only healded
differently to produce cords of different stripes. The sundry sorts of velvateens
are intended to be made for the following purposes, viz', for men and woman's
cloths, mock furrs, linings, carpets, floor cloths, saddle cloths, coach linings,
coverings for chairs and settees and sedans, and to be used instead of paper

page_text: for hanging rooms, for stair cloths, boots, shoes, slippers, muffs, coverlids for
beds and cradles, for bed hangings, window curtains, for palls and covering
coffins, hammer cloths, and also instead of tapistrey.
The Method of Cutting the Velveteen: the knife must lean to one side one
third or more, acording to the length of the pile, to cutt the pile in the middle
or center, whereas the common method of cutting Velveretts is with the edge
of the knife directly upwards.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Woolstenholme, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Eighth day of April, in the sixteenth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-six.
AND BE IT REMELDRED,
venteent
Арги,
the year above said, the aforesaid James Woolstenholme came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his
Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification. aforesaid was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of April, in the year above written.