NEW-INVENTED METHOD OF THROWING SILK TO MAKE CRAPE AND TIFFANY, TO IMITATE AND RESEMBLE WHAT IS IMPORTED FROM ITALY UNDER THOSE NAMES; AND ALSO A NEW ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR DRESSING SUCH SILK WHEN SO THROWN AND WOVE, TO FINISH, COMPLEAT, AND MAKE THE SAME IN EVERY RESPECT EQUAL TO THE ITALIAN
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN CRUMPLER, of the City of London, Gauze 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
Westminster, the Fifteenth day of April, in the twelfth year of His
reign, did grant unto me, the said John Crumpler, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said John Crumpler, 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 John Crumpler, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, my "NEW-INVENTED METHOD OF THROWING
SILK TO MAKE CRAPE AND TIFFANY, TO IMITATE AND RESEMBLE WHAT IS IMPORTED
FROM ITALY UNDER THOSE NAMES; AND ALSO A NEW ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR
DRESSING SUCH SILK WHEN SO THROWN AND WOVE, TO FINISH, COMPLEAT, AND
MAKE THE SAME IN EVERY RESPECT EQUAL TO THE ITALIAN," 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 John Crumpler, my executors, admors, and assigns, or any of them
should, in their discretions, seem meet; and that I, the said John Crumpler,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time

page_text: coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for
and during 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 John Crumpler, my
executors, administrators, 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 John Crumpler, 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 calendar months next and immediately after the date thereof, that
then the said recited Letters Patent, and all libertys and advantages whatso-
ever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Crumpler, do hereby declare
my said Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner
following (that is to say):
My method of throwing silk for making crape and tiffany. The mill, or
machine for the throwing of silk is of various sizes, one part exactly round,
with a handle to work by hand labour or water, surrounded with leather,
that goes round the mill; and the other part is sharp at both ends, on which
circumference rest the sockets for the steel machine that hold the slippers that
contain the silk to be throwed, over which there are hoods, from whence it is
put through glass, and from thence conveyed to tinn receivers, which are
screwed on. I also use many different counts of stars, lanthorns, coggs,
braces, and all other the materials are varied as the different sizes of the silk
vary that I want to throw, or whether I want to make crape or tiffany, as
tiffany must have the least throw. The silk being first put on the slippers, and
fastned to the receivers, and all the apparatus compleat, in order to begin to
work with the handel for that purpose, and when the silk is ready, I warp it
with great care, and turn it on two rolls, and enter it through a harness and
reed; and the rolls must be kept at small distances from each other. I work
it slack in the loom, which must be kept square.
When all is well propor-
tioned by art, then begin to work a tabby. If you make tiffany, stiffen it in
the loom; if crape, of any colour, I have my engine, which is two large upright
pieces of wood, fastened to the place top and bottom where erected, between
which posts I have two large rounds, discretionally hot, which open and close,

page_text: with a figure between, which engine, it being properly prepared, the silk has been
thrown and operated on and wove, is put in such a manner as to make it pass
as even as possible through the operation, which must be done with all possible
Then there are two handles to work the machine, which being put on,
I proceed to work, which is done by hand labour or by springs or water, and
afterwards finish it as love.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Crumpler, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of August, in the twelfth 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-two.
WILLIAM GARDEN,
BIGOE HENZELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fourteenth day of August,
in the year last above written, the said John Crumpler came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid was stamped 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 said Fourteenth day of August, in the year above written.