An Improvement in the Manufacture of Coloured Figured Fabrics.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Coloured Figured Fabrics.
We, THOMAS TAYLOR, of the firm of Barlow and Jones Limited, of Bolton, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, and JACOB WARBURTON, of the same
płace, Designer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of an improved coloured figured cloth
having a tapestry appearance or effect suitable for curtains, table cloths,
antimacassars, quilts &c.
:-
In weaving our improved coloured figured fabric we employ a loom of the
ordinary construction and we use two warps and two shuttles. One warp the face
warp is by preference all of one colour and is of a finer material than the other and
in combination with the coarse weft composes the figured portion of the fabric ;
this finer warp is also used to bind the figured portion to the ground portion and
may be worked either plain twill sateen or other weave of cloth and is by preference
woven in healds.
The other warp is of a material coarser or thicker than the face warp and is called
the ground warp and in combination with the fine weft composes the ground of the
fabric which may be plain twill sateen or other weave. The ground warp is drawn
into the mounting or harness connected with the Jacquard machine and so stitches
or creates the pattern of the cloth by being raised when the coarse picks are being
interwoven to form the ground of the cloth and when not raised allows the figure
portion to appear upon the surface of the cloth. This ground warp is made of
yarns of different colours and if two colours are employed they are placed either
one end of one colour and one end of the other colour, or one end of one colour and
two ends of the other colour, or two ends of each colour successively and so on in
a similar manner, whereby a tapestry effect is produced upon the ground of the
cloth. Three or more colours might be employed in a similarly assorted manner.
The weft from, one shuttle is of a finer material than the weft from the other
shuttle and is used to bind the coarse or ground warp of various colours as above
mentioned so that the coarse or ground warp and fine weft compose the ground of
the fabric.
The other weft is of a coarser or thicker material than the first named and is
interwoven with the fine or face warp to make the figure portion of the cloth as
above described.
D
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1000
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Coloured Figured Fabrics.
We, THOMAS TAYLOR, of the firm of Barlow and Jones Limited, of Bolton, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, and JACOB WARBURTON, of the same
place, Designer, 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 :-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of an improved coloured figured cloth
having a tapestry appearance or effect suitable for curtains table cloths
5 antimacassars quilts &c.
In weaving our improved coloured figured fabric we employ a loom of the
ordinary construction and we use two separate warps and two shuttles. One warp,

page_text: the face warp, is, by preference all of one colour and of a finer material than the
other, and in combination with a coarse weft from one shuttle composes the figured
portion of the fabric; this finer warp is also used to bind the figured portion of the
fabric to the ground portion thereof and may be woven either as a plain, twill, sateen,
or other weave of cloth, and is by preference woven in healds.
The other warp is of a material coarser or thicker than the face warp, and is
called the ground warp, and, in combination with a fine weft from the second
shuttle composes the ground of the fabric which may be woven as plain, twill,
sateen, or other weave. The ground warp is drawn into the mounting or harness
connected with the Jacquard machine, and so stitches or creates the pattern of the
cloth by the selected portions being raised when the coarse picks of weft are
being interwoven, to form the ground of the cloth, and when the same portions are
not raised allows the figure portion to appear upon the surface of the cloth. This
ground warp is composed of yarns of different colours, and if two colours are
employed they are placed one end of one colour and one end of the other colour
alternately, or one end of one colour and two ends of the other colour, or two ends
of each colour successively, and so on in a similar manner across the piece, whereby
a tapestry effect is produced upon the ground of the cloth. Three or more colours
might be employed in a similarly assorted manner.
The weft from one shuttle is of a coarser or thicker material than the weft from the
other shuttle, and is interwoven with the fine or face warp to make the figure
portion of the cloth as above described.
The weft from the second shuttle is of a finer material than the first named, and
is used to bind the coarse or ground warp of various colours as above mentioned,
so that the interweaving of the coarse or ground warp and the fine weft composes
the ground of the fabric.
We would have it understood that we are fully aware that two sets of warps,
that is to say, a ground warp and a figure warp, of different colours and thicknesses
together with two shuttles with weft of different thicknesses have been previously
employed in various descriptions of weaving but the use of these in themselves does
not constitute this our present invention, which consists in the production of the
particular fabric having a tapestry appearance and effect in the manner and by the
means herein before described and as pointed out in the claims.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a coloured figured fabric woven of two warps and two wefts substantially
as hereinbefore described we claim the use and application of a ground warp
composed of yarns of two or more different colours whereby a tapestry appearance
or effect in or on such fabric is produced.
2. A coloured figured fabric having a tapestry appearance or effect produced by
weaving with a variegated ground warp substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 1st day of August 1891.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.