A Method of Producing Mosaic-like Embroidery.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Producing Mosaic-like Embroidery.
I, AUGUST ANDREAS KRUGER, of 19/21, of Leipzig-Plagwitz in the Kingdom
of Saxony, German Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
my invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a new article of manufacture, viz. a novel sort of
embroidery, in which stripes or small ribbons are employed instead of threads, and
in which each stitch represents a quadrangle or square. Therefore, by using a
number of differently coloured stripes, and by arranging the stitches in parallel
lines that are situated one close to the other, there may be produced a mosaic-like
embroidery.
To be able to arrange the stitches in the aforesaid manner I make use of a
special sort of base-fabric having very wide meshes. The warp-threads of said
fabric are arranged in pairs, and are connected by single weft-threads; in other
words, each mesh has its extremities formed at two opposite sides by single
threads, and at the other two opposite sides by double-threads. The coloured
stripes that cover or close the meshes are passed through between the two threads
of a pair of threads, and to facilitate said passing through I employ a broad needle
the eye of which extends crosswise, or rectangularly to the longitudinal direction of
the needle respectively.
In order to make my invention more clear, I refer to the accompanying drawing,
in which I have shown a piece of said base-fabric stretched upon a frame, and
provided with the commencement of a mosaic-like embroidery.
aaa.
are the double warp threads;
b b b . . the single weft-threads,
c the (coloured) stripes;
d is the needle proper and
e a wooden needle that serves for preventing the stripes from getting distorted,
and for smoothing the finished stitch. The stitches made with a stripe, or the
squares made from a stripe respectively, may extend in horizontal or vertical or
oblique or zig-zag-like lines, and, in fact, may form figures of any configuration.
It is not indispensably requisite that each mesh is covered by a special stitch, but
one stitch may cover two or more meshes, just as best suited for the respective
particular design.
I prefer to let the coloured stripes consist of felt or cloth, but, of course, any
other sort of fabric may as well be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The method of producing mosaic-like embroidery, consisting in covering or
closing the meshes of a wide-meshed base-fabric by stripes or small ribbons forming
upon said fabric quadrangles or squares arranged in parallel lines; said fabric having
its warp-threads running in pairs, and said stripes being passed through between the

page_text: two threads of a pair of threads by means of a needle having its eye extending
crosswise, substantially as described.
Dated this 13th day of May 1896.
AUGUST ANDREAS KRÜGER,
By Geo. H. Rayner,
Agent for the Applicant.