INVENTION AND NEW METHOD OF WEAVING AND CUTTING THE WARP, SHUTE, OR BROCADE FLOATING SILK OK THE RIGHT SIDE OR FACE OF VELVET, SHAG, SATTIN CORD, TABBY CHAIN, LUSTRING, OR MIXTURES OF EITHER OF THEM, PLAIN, FLOWERD, OR SPOTTED WITH FLUSH, TISSUE, TOBINE, OR BROCADE, WITH SILK, GOLD, OR SILVER, AND SILK MIXED WITH COTTON, THREAD, OR WORSTED, 80 AS TO FORM THE DESIGN, PATTERN, FIGURE, OR STRIPE, AND OF STAINING, PRINTING, OR COLOURING THE WHOLE OR PART OF THE SURFACE OF PLAIN, STRIPED OR FLOWERED SILK OR COTTON VELVET, LONG OR SHORT PILED SHAG AND PLUSH
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STEPHEN
DOLIGNON, of the Parish of Christs Church, in the County of Middlesex,
Weaver, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Thirty-first day of December, in the eighteenth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Stephen Dolignon, His special
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Stephen
Dolignon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully
might, during the term of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "INVENTION AND NEW
METHOD OF WEAVING AND CUTTING THE WARP, SHUTE, OR BROCADE FLOATING SILK
OK THE RIGHT SIDE OR FACE OF VELVET, SHAG, SATTIN CORD, TABBY CHAIN,
LUSTRING, OR MIXTURES OF EITHER OF THEM, PLAIN, FLOWERD, OR SPOTTED WITH
FLUSH, TISSUE, TOBINE, OR BROCADE, WITH SILK, GOLD, OR SILVER, AND SILK MIXED
WITH COTTON, THREAD, OR WORSTED, 80 AS TO FORM THE DESIGN, PATTERN, FIGURE,
OR STRIPE, AND OF STAINING, PRINTING, OR COLOURING THE WHOLE OR PART OF THE
SURFACE OF PLAIN, STRIPED, OR FLOWERED SILK OR COTTON VELVET, LONG OR
SHORT PILED SHAG AND PLUSH;" in which said recited Letters Patent is con-
tained a provisoe obliging me, the said Stephen Dolignon, by an instrument in

page_text: writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said
Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Stephen Dolignon, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained
in manner and form following, that is to say :-
I form the design, pattern, figure, or stripe on the right side or face of
velvet, shag, sattin cord, tabby chain, lustring, or mixtures of either of them,
plain, flowered, or spotted with flush; tissue, tobine, or brocade, with gold,
silver, or silk, and silk mixed with cotton, thread, or worsted, by tobining or
working by tobine that part of the warp silk intended to be cut, by flushing,
tissuing, or shooting that part of the shute silk intended to be cut, and by
brocading that part of the brocade silk intended to be cut in floatings, fastened,
bound, or wrought into the ground in those places where the design, pattern,
figure, or stripe is to be performed by the cut silk, and then cutting such float-
ing silk close to or at such distance or distances from each such fastening or
binding or places were the floating silk is fastened, bound, or wrought into the
ground, as the design, pattern, figure, or stripe may require; and I stain,
print, or colour the whole or part of the surface of plain, striped, or flowered
silk or cotton velvet, long or short poiled shag and plush, by applying, stamp-
ing, or rubbing the surface of either of them with a brush, cushion, spunge,
or other soft and poreous substance imbibed with or soaked in such liquid, so
as to produce the colour intended; and I compose such liquid by dilutions or
decoctions of Saxon blue, orchilla, 'logwood, cochineal, arnnatto, fustick, gall-
nuts, copperas, allum, aquafortis, and such other ingredients as are used by
dyers, mixed together or used separately according to the colour required..
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and seventy-eight.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of April, in
the year of our Lord 1778, the aforesaid Stephen Dolignon came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamp according to the
tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord One