The Manufacture of a New Kind of Looped Fabric.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
The Manufacture of a New Kind of Looped Fabric.
I, GIULIO MARCHETTI, of Dean Clough Mills, Halifax, in the County of York,
Carpet Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to the manufacture of a new kind of looped fabric composed
of threads of various colours suitable for carpets rugs and other goods the new
fabric having a novel and beautiful effect, such effect being durable and not hitherto
obtained.
When looped fabrics are woven with the warp or warps forming the loops or face
of the fabric composed only of threads of worsted of different colours the pattern is
formed by the difference in colour of the threads selected from time to time to
form the loops, but there is little or no contrast between the .threads other than that
of colour.
In manufacturing my new fabric the loops are formed as hitherto by means of
threads of different colours the threads which have to be lifted to form the required
pattern being selected and operated by means of the Jacquard or other similar
machine or by healds whilst those threads which are not required to form the pattern
remain buried in the body of the fabric, but according to my invention in order to
obtain a greater contrast than has hitherto been obtained between the various threads
of the warp or warps forming the loops or face of the fabric I compose the said
warp or warps partially of threads of worsted as hitherto and partially of threads of
alpaca or mohair. By means of the contrast between the ordinary worsted threads
and the much more lustrous threads of alpaca or mohair I am enabled to produce a
new kind of looped fabric having novel and beautiful effects of contrast hitherto
unattained.
In carrying out my invention in the manufacture of what is known as a five frame
carpet I may, for example, use worsted for the whole of the threads composing the
four frames forming the figure of the design and may use alpaca or mohair for the
whole of the threads composing the frame forming the ground of the design and by
the contrast between the brilliant and lustrous threads of alpaca or mohair forming
the ground of the design and the threads of worsted forming the figure of the design
I obtain a fabric with a beauty of contrast hitherto not obtained.
In other cases the whole of the figure of the design may be composed of threads
of alpaca or mohair and the ground of the design may be composed of threads of
worsted, or the ground and figure of the design may be composed partly of threads
of worsted and partly of threads of alpaca or mohair, as may be required by the
character of the design in order to produce beautiful contrasting effects.
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 is
(1.) The manufacture and use of a new kind of looped fabric, that is to say, a
fabric in which the loops are formed of a warp or warps composed of threads of
various colours which threads in some parts of the pattern are composed of worsted
and in some parts of the pattern are composed of alpaca or mohair, substantially in
the manner and for the purpose herein before described.
(2.) The use in the manufacture of looped fabrics composed of threads of various
colours, of threads of worsted to form the loops in some parts of the pattern and of

page_text: threads of alpaca or mohair to form the loops in other parts of the pattern as and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated the 2nd day of December 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.