Improved Method of Stitching for Producing Shaded Embroidery or Needlework.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1898-Accepted, 7th May, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Stitching for Producing Shaded Embroidery
or Needlework.
I, NATHAN FRIEDBERGER, of 43, Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a new method of stitching for producing shaded
embroidery or needlework.
The invention will be hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying
drawing in which
Fig. 1 at A, represents the tracing or pattern for a design for shaded embroidery
or needle work according to the present invention.
B in Fig. 2 shows the embroidery carried out according to the pattern A of Fig. 1
by the method of stitching according to the present invention.
C in Fig. 1 is a modification of the pattern A in the same figure.
Din Fig. 2 shows the shaded embroidery effected according to the pattern shown
at C by the method of stitching according to the present invention.
E in Fig. 3 shows a shaded embroidery pattern according to the method hitherto
in use.
F in Fig. 4 shows the shaded embroidery effected according to the old method
of stitching.
G in Fig. 3 represents a modification of the pattern shown at E on the same
fig. and
H Fig. 4 gives the finished embroidery according to the pattern shown at G by
the old method of stitching.
By comparing the arrangements in Figs. 1 and 2 with those of Figs. 3 and 4
the superiority of the arrangement for shaded embroidery or needlework according
to the present invention over the old method of stitching will be clearly perceived.
It is sufficient, in fact, to examine Figs. 3 and 4 and to compare them with
Figs. 1 and 2 both as regards the pattern of the design and the stitching of said
design to see clearly that owing to the new method illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2
it is possible to obtain by embroidering according to said method shades passing
imperceptibly one into another so that these shades can pass at a given point from
dark to light or vice versa, which is an effect impossible to obtain by the old method
according to Figs. 3 and 4.
The essential distinctive feature of the stitching according to the present inven-
tion consists in the arrangement and combination as indicated at A and B, C and D,
Figs. 1 and 2 of short and long stitches intermingling or alternating with each
other and presenting in their corresponding parts a juxtaposition, producing in
shaded embroidery the interposition or alternation of colours of different shades
producing the above mentioned effect of imperceptible change of shading.
In the pattern A Fig. 1 corresponding to the finished embroidery at B Fig.

page_text: the stitches are clearly shown and it is necessary only to form the stitches corre-
sponding to the lines both on said lines and between them.
In the pattern C Fig. 1 corresponding to the finished shaded embroidery shown
at D Fig. 2 the direction of stitches is indicated by continuous longitudinal lines.
Continuous transverse lines indicate the spot at which the stitch is to be made both
on the longitudinal lines and between them.
From the preceding and from the comparison of Figs. 1 and 2 and Figs. 3 and 4
it will be easily understood that the method of stitching according to the present
invention gives greater facilities for obtaining shaded embroidery than the
ordinary method of stitching and enables the work to be done more quickly and
imperceptibly changing shading effects to be obtained which cannot be obtained
by the usual methods hitherto employed. i
If Figs. 2 and 4, showing respectively finished embroideries by the new and old
methods, are compared, it will be seen that of these two examples, in both. of
which the shading is supposed to be obtained by a combination of four shades of
the same tint, the embroidery in Fig. 2 is perfect as regards the transition between
the four shades used to form the shaded design, whereas in Fig. 4 these shades
are sharply marked and are divided by comparatively straight lines which of course
prevents the gradual transition of shading according to Fig. 2 from being attained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I-declare that what I
claim is:
1
The method of stitching for producing shaded embroidery or needlework con-
sisting in forming a combination of alternating interlapping stitches of different
shades whereby corresponding portions of different shades are juxtaposed and thus
produce, in the work the interposition of different shades whereby the effect of
gradual transition of tints is attained substantially as described.
14
1000
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.