Improvements in the Manufacture of Curtains and Dress Flounces Woven in Imitation of Lace.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Curtains and Dress
Flounces Woven in Imitation of Lace.
I, JAMES EDELSTON of Preston, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CURTAINS AND DRESS
FLOUNCES WOVEN IN IMITATION OF LACE to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to the manufacture of curtains and dress flounces
woven in a loom, and have for object the imitation of lace curtains or lace flounces
such as are manufactured in a lace machine.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements I employ a loom fitted with
"leno" barness and jacquard or dobby, and so actuate the same as to form the
pattern of part plain cloth and part leno weaving, and also, in some cases, of part
Hoated weft, whereby an imitation of the various openworks of lace making is
produced in combination with a border of different woven effect on one or both
edges of the fabric. The warp threads are, by preference, drawn into the reed four
in a dent so that two warps may be crossed over other two warps by means of the
"doup" or other leno action of the harness, and the various openworks in imitation
of lace are obtained by crossing such warps for different numbers of picks or shoots
of weft in different parts of the pattern.
Great variation of designs may be woven by this means, and various qualities of
fabrics and thicknesses of yarns may be employed without departing from the
peculiar character of the invention, which consists in the combination of plain and
leno weaving with a border, or, plain with floated and leno weaving with a border,
or, varied leno weaving with a border, when arranged and actuated in such manner
that the combinations form an imitation of lace curtains or lace flounces as made
on lace machinery.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
Agent.

page_text: Flounces Woven in Imitation of Lace.
I, JAMES EDELSTON, of Preston, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CURTAINS AND DRESS
FLOUNCES WOVEN IN IMITATION OF LACE" and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The improvements relate to the manufacture of curtains and dress flounces by
weaving the same in a loom, and have for object the imitation of lace curtains or
lace flounces such as are manufactured in a lace machine.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I employ a loom fitted with
"leno" harness, and jacquard or dobby; and so actuate the same as to form the
pattern of part plain cloth and part leno weaving; and also, in some cases, of part
floated weft, whereby an imitation of the various openworks of lace making may
be produced in combination with a border of different woven effect on one or both
edges of the fabric. The warp threads are, by preference, drawn into the reed four
in a dent so that two warps may be crossed over other two warps, by means of the
doup" or other leno action of the harness, and the various open works in imitation
of lace are obtained by crossing such warps for different numbers of picks or shoots
of weft in different parts of the pattern.
"
Great variation of designs in imitation of lace, may be made by this means, and
various qualities of fabrics or thicknesses of yarns, as also may different numbers of
cross over threads be employed without departing from the peculiar character of
the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim 18
The combination of plain and leno weaving with a border to the fabric; or of
plain with floated weft and leno weaving with a border; or other combinations
of the same with a border, when arranged and actuated by the jacquard or dobby
apparatus in such manner that such combinations of weaving form an imitation of
lace curtains, or lace bounces, such are are made on lace machinery.
Dated this 4th day of Amet 1886