MPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SILK FANCY WEAVINGS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Seamer, of No. 5, Milk Street, in the
City of London, Silk and Velvet Manufacturer, for the Invention of
TMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SILK FANCY WEAVINGS."
Scaled the 31st July 1868, and dated the 11th February 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Seamer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th February 1868.
I, GEORGE SEAMER, of No. 5, Milk Street, in the City of London,
Silk and Velvet Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SILK FANCY
WEAVINGS," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to produce various ornamental effects
in silk weavings. For this purpose I employ two sets of weft of different
colors one from the other where the effects are to be produced, one weft
being for the back and the other for the face. The face weft may be
of the same or a different color from the warp, depending upon the
extent of variation in "shot" desired to be obtained. The selection of

page_text: the weft is for "twill," and the general arrangement of the weaving is
half "tissue" and half "tabby," the "tabby" being "tissued" right
through shoot and shoot. The fabric when woven is folded selvage to.
selvage, face to face, and subjected to pressure for watering as in the
production of moira antique. By these means peculiar combinations
of "shot" with moira antique are obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said George Seamer in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th August 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SEAMER, of No. 5, Milk Street, in the City of London, Silk and Velvet
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Seamer, Her special licenco
that I, the said George Seamer, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Seamer, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTTRE OF SILK FANCY WEAVINGS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said. George Seamer, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Seamer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to.be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the Invention is to produce various ornamental effects
in silk weavings. For this purpose I employ two sets of weft of different
colors one from the other where the effects are to be produced, one weft
being for the back and the other for the face. The face weft may be
of the same or a different color from the warp, depending upon the
extent of variation in "shot" desired to be obtained. The selection of
the weft is for "tweel," and the general arrangement of the weaving
in half "tissue" and half "tabby," the "tabby" being "tissued" right
through shoot and shoot.
The accompanying diagram indicates the order of weaving I prefer
to adopt, though I do not confine myself to that precise order. In this
diagram the warp is represented as divided into eight parts capable of
being raised at eight separate times. The a and b indicate the order
of rising of the warps for the inlay of back weft intermediate of the
inlay of front or face weft, the order of rising of the warp for which is
indicated by the numbered 1 to 8. The fabric when woven is folded
selvage to selvage, face to face, and subjected to pressure for watering as
in the production of moire antique. By these means peculiar com-
bination of "shot" with moire antique are obtained.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the manufacture of silk fancy weavings substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Seamer, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.