IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WEAVING CARPETS AND' OTHER ORNAMENTAL FABRICS
Year: 1884

page_text: MATERIALS
FOR
I JAMES MURRAY TEMPLETON of 1 Park Circus, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
WEAVING CARPETS AND' OTHER ORNAMENTAL FABRICS." and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My said Invention has for its object to improve and simplify the manufacture of
certain materials to be used in weaving carpets and other ornamental fabrics, so
as, in an economical and convenient manner, to produce certain colored effects
which have hitherto been obtained by making up a yarn of worsted or other
fibrous material of two or more strands of different colors or shades dyed separately
and afterwards combined by the ordinary operation of doubling and twisting.
The effect, more particularly sought to be produced is that of a kind of shading
due to the combination in a single yarn of light and dark or brighter and deeper
shades of the same color or hue or of very similar colors or hues, such for example
as two shades of gold or two shades of red.
In carrying out the present Invention according to one modification, advantage
is taken of the fact, that of the worsteds used for weaving carpets there are
different kinds or qualities some being of a nearly white color whilst others are of
a brownish color of some depth; what are known as "laid" yarns being of the
If a finished yarn is to
latter color and available for the present Invention.
consist of two strands it is by this Invention formed by combining or doubling
together and twisting a light worsted and a dark worsted, and then the otherwise
finished yarn is dyed at a single operation with one color, the effect being that
two shades of the color will be shown by the dyed yarn in consequence of the dye
being upon light and dark strands. In this way the complication, and expense of
separate dyeings is avoided as well as the difficulty of adjusting the separately
dyed shades to suit each other. When the finished yarn is to consist of three or
more strands they may all be of different original shades, or one or more may be
of one shade, and one or more of another shade.
According to another modification, all the material for the finished yarn may be

page_text: originally of one shade, or of more than one shade; but a part of it to form one or
more of two or more strands of which the finished yarn is to consist, is dyed of any
suitable dark or deep shade; and after the dyed strand or strands is or are
combined by doubling and twisting with one or more undyed strands, the entire
yarn is dyed of the desired color which will show different shades or depths in
consequence of being combined partly, or as regards one or more of the strands,
with the shade previously imparted thereto.
Having thus particulary described the nature of my said Invention and the
manner of performing the same I proceed to ascertain the distinctive feature of
novelty thereof by declaring that what I claim is :-
In the manufacture of materials for weaving carpets and other ornamental
fabrics, the production of a yarn showing two or more shades of color, by
combining light and dark strands in forming the yarn, and by subsequently dyeing
such yarn with a single color, substantially as herein before described.
Dated this twenty-eighth day of January 1884.