AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING FIGURES, PATTERNS, OR DESIGNS UPON TEXTILE FABRICS FOR THE PURPOSES OF NEEDLEWORK
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Curling Hope, of Hastings, in the County
of Sussex, Designer and Publisher, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF PRODUCING FIGURES, PATTERNS, OR DESIGNS UPON TEXTILE FABRICS
FOR THE PURPOSES OF NEEDLEWORK."
of Sussex, Designer and Publisher, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF PRODUCING FIGURES, PATTERNS, OR DESIGNS UPON TEXTILE FABRICS
FOR THE PURPOSES OF NEEDLEWORK."
Sealed the 14th March 1856, and dated the 1st October 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Curling Hope at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st October 1855.
I, GEORGE CURLING HOPE, of Hastings, in the County of Sussex, Designer
and Publisher, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING FIGURES, PATTERNS, OR DESIGNS UPON TEXTILE
FABRICS FOR THE PURPOSES OF NEEDLEWORK." to be as follows:-
Hitherto a description of work intended to be ornamented or finished by
needlework, and known in the trade by the term "appliqué," has been pro-
duced by cutting out figures, patterns, or devices from a textile fabric, and
applying them on to grounds of similar material. Now, my Invention
consists in producing effects resembling "appliqué" work, by printing on
to textile fabrics patterns, figures, or devices, either by means of what is
known as block printing, or by means of printing and embossing, as com-
monly used in the manufacture of tablecloths, the work thus produced being
intended to be subsequently finished or ornamented at pleasure by needlework.
The pattern, figure, or device may be of a different shade or color or of
different shades or colors from that of the ground on which it is printed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Curling Hope in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
CURLING HOPE, of Hastings, in the County of Sussex, Designer and Publisher,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Curling Hope, Her special licence that I, the said George Curling
Hope, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Curling Hope, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING FIGURES, PATTERNS, OR DESIGNS UPON TEXTILE
FABRICS FOR THE PURPOSES OF NEEDLEWORK," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said George Curling Hope, my executors or administrators, by au
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Curling Hope, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
Hitherto a description of work intended to be ornamented or finished by
needlework, and known in the trade by the term of "appliqué," has been pro-
duced by cutting out figures, patterns, or devices from a textile fabric, and
applying them on to grounds of similar material. Now, my Invention consists
in producing effects resembling "appliqué" work, by printing on to textile
fabrics patterns, figures, or devices, either by means of what is known as
"block printing," or by means of printing and embossing, the work thus
produced being intended to be subsequently finished or ornamented at
pleasure by needlework. The pattern, figure, or device may be of a different

page_text: shade or color or of different shades or colors from that of the ground on which
it is printed.
In carrying out my Invention I find it preferable to employ block printing,
as then the design enters well into the body of the cloth, and is not liable to
wear off; but for many purposes I apply my pattern or design by surface print-
ing from stone, copper, or otherwise. The pattern may be produced either by
printing it upon the ground, or the ground itself may be made to form the
pattern, another color or colors being employed to fill up the parts of the fabric
surrounding the pattern.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I am aware that an outline
or trace has been printed upon cloth, for the purpose of guiding a person orna-
menting the same, by sewing thereon braid, cord, or other ornament, whereby
the outline is hidden; therefore I do not claim the impressing upon cloths of an
outline, pattern, or figure; but I do claim the improved method herein-before
described of producing what is known as "appliqué" work by printing, instead
of by the employment of two separate fabrics, as hitherto done.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Curling Hope, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
GEO. CURLING HOPE. (L.S.)