Improvements in Ladies' Veiling.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1894-Accepted, 18th Aug.,
1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ladies' Veiling.
I ANNIE ASHLEIGH SMITH, Principal of Ladies' School, of 32, Foxgrove
Road, Beckenham, Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in ladies' veiling, and has for its object to
prevent waste in the cutting of such veiling to form individual veils, and to render
the latter capable of being readily shaped, to suit the curve of the wearer's
forehead.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood,
reference is made to the drawing accompanying this Specification, in which a length
of veiling is represented, ready for cutting and drawing up into shape.
As is well known the veiling heretofore in use, was woven with a thicker fixed
thread than the threads composing the rest of the fabric, along the upper and
lower edges of same, to form a hem, or border and in cutting a length of this
veiling into suitable indivdual lengths and in treating same for the purpose of
forming veils, there was necessarily a quantity of the fabric wasted. Now by my
invention I weave the fabric a with the usual thick fixed thread a' along the upper
also weave
and lower edges of the said fabric, and in addition to these threads,
two more thick fixed threads in the centre of the fabric a, which threads bare
woven into the fabric in an undulating pattern as shewn. I also provide two loose
threads c, one on each side of the thick fixed or woven threads, which loose
threads are passed or threaded loosely through the interstices of the fabric and
alternately under and over the weft threads of same, so as to be capable of being
drawn through such fabric at will.
In dividing the fabric a into suitable lengths to form individual veils, the said
fabric is cut longitudinally between the two fixed or woven threads b so as to
divide such fabric into two longitudinal strips, which are then divided laterally
through the apexes of the undulating pattern formed by the fixed and loose
threads and c.
The drawing illustrates a length of veiling divided from the portion in this
manner, out of which length, the lower half (it such length of veiling were divided
along the line 2. z.) would constitute itself sufficient to form a veil. In order to
form two veils, the length of fabric should be sufficient to include two distinct
curves or undulations of the threads and c, so that when divided along the
line . ., both the upper and lower portions of such fabric are of the same curve
along one edge, and if such two portions were to be placed one upon the other,
they would both coincide.
In order to render the veils so formed capable of closely fitting the foreheads
of the wearers, the respective ends of the two loose threads c are drawn together
and joined, thereby gathering up or puckering the fabric between the ends of
such loose threads c.
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 :-
The improvements in ladies' veiling, consisting in weaving into the centre of
think thunado
undulating
courro
through the fabric. to form

page_text: borders or hems when the fabric is divided, and threading through said fabric
loose threads following a similar course to the thick woven threads, substantially
as and for the purpose, described and illustrated.
Dated this 12th day of July 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, Agents.