A NEW-INVENTED GRÅND IMPERIAL AULAEUM, FROM THREE TO EIGHTEEN ORB TWENTY FEET WIDE, WITHOUT SEAM, AND TO ANY LENGTH OR COLOUR, FOR DECORATING THE MOST SUPERB OR USEFUL ROOMS, FOR SUCH AS DRAPERY,CURTAINS, AND FRINGES, CHAIRS, SOFAS, TABLES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, OR FURNISHED ON ONE SIDE ONLY, FOR ORNAMENTAL HANGINGS, BORDERS, AND EVERY OTHER SPECIES OF DECORATION
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
STUBBS, of Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Blind Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Eighth day of October last, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Stubbs, His special licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Stubbs, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by
my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the
said Henry Stubbs, my exors, admors, 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, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "A NEW-INVENTED GRÅND IMPERIAL AULAEUM, FROM THREE
TO EIGHTEEN ORB TWENTY FEET WIDE, WITHOUT SEAM, AND TO ANY LENGTH OR
COLOUR, FOR DECORATING THE MOST SUPERB OR USEFUL ROOMS, FOR SUCH AS
DRAPERY, CURTAINS, AND FRINGES, CHAIRS, SOFAS, TABLES, AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF FURNITURE, OR FURNISHED ON ONE SIDE ONLY, FOR ORNAMENTAL HANGINGS,
BORDERS, AND EVERY OTHER SPECIES OF DECORATION," which he conceived will
be of great public utility; in which said Letters Patent there is contained

page_text: a proviso obliging me, the said Henry Stubbs, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to
cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Stubbs, do hereby describe and ascertain that my-Invention consists in
embellishing the interior of superb mansions, principal rooms, or elegant
apartments. The aulaeum is manufactured from one to sixteen feet wide,
more or less, as may be required, without seams, and to any colour, figure, or
design. The texture surpasseth superfine cloth, and its beauty approaches near
to that of velvet; consequently, when hung on the walls, and other places where
hung, exhibits a lustre of grandeur and magnificence to the eye of the
beholder, as it refers to the materials from which it is manufactured. It is
produced, by art and labor, principally from fine linen and worsted cloth. These
two articles are inseparably attached, and firmly incorporated into each other,
chiefly by glue and a small portion of colour, with some driers of binding
and adhesive qualities. Of the two aforesaid articles, the most prominent, and
that which constitutes the fine face and beauty of the aulaeum, is a dyed,
coloured, or white flock. This being prepared, I proceed with the fine linen
and worsted cloth, which answers for the back or ground of the aulaeum, this
fixed in a frame or otherwise suspended, in length and breadth, either
perpendicular, leaning, or horizontal; it then receives a considerable quantity
of glue, together with a small portion of water-colour. These two ingredients,
warmed to a proper consistency of heat, and laid on with a brush, or other-
wise, at once forms a flexible parchment. This operation of the brush gives
lassitude to every thread; the cloth will then expand near three inches in
every three feet; the frames must then be extended in all directions to the
utmost extent that the worsted or linen will admit of; it is thus extended, and
by means of heat dried, and is invariably fixed as to its dimensions. When
thoroughly hard or dry a second process commences: the parchment undergoes
some considerable friction from the pumice stone; all prominent threads and
superfluous glue is cleaned off, and then what follows is a thin coat of colour,
as near as possible to the colour of flock intended for the face of the aulaeum;
the whole piece of parchment being. thinly covered, the flock is put into a
sieve and dispersed over the whole piece, which still continues strained to a
very high pitch; so as to form its own drum; the aulaeun is then, dressed
on the under side, and flock diffuces and regularly adheres to the composition

page_text: until finished. Nothing more is required to compleat the aulaeum but strong
fires, which dries and takes of all kind of effluvia..
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Stubbs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and ten.