IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING GAUZE AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTING GAUZE AND OTHER FABRICS."-A communication from abroad
by Eugène Siess, Calico Printer, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris.
Sealed the 19th May 1868, and dated the 27th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th November 1867.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 58, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ORNAMENTING GAUZE AND OTHER FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the production of designs of all kinds and colors
presenting either a bright or dull appearance on light and other fabrics, this
ornamentation being especially applicable to gauze, tarletan, tulle, and other
light fabrics.
The following is the mode in which I carry out the Invention:-I take
colored resin or sealing wax, reduce it to powder, and spread it on a table;
I then place the fabric to be ornamented on the pulverized matter, and impress
any suitable design thereon by the aid of an adhesive mordant which causes
the pulverized wax to adhere at all points where the mordant is absorbed.
After the fabric is dry I brush off any surplus wax and subject it to the action

page_text: of heat in a stove or otherwise, by which means the particles of resinous
matter become fixed and assume a brilliant colored effect. I may impart
complex designs to the fabric by means of a series of plates, such as dots,
stars, flowers, and others, and instead of using wax or resin, substitute stearine,
virgin wax, or paraffine suitably colored.
The Invention thus consists, 1st, in the method, herein described,
of ornamenting fabrics; and, 2ndly, in the means employed for such
purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 58, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special licence that I, the said Alexander
Melville Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, 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 ORNAMENTING GAUZE AND OTHER FABRICS," a communication
to me from abroad by Eugène Siess, Calico Printer, of 29, Boulevart St.
Martin, Paris, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander
Melville Clark, 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 Alexander Melville Clark, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to the production of designs of all kinds and colors
presenting either a bright or dull appearance or matt on light and other
fabrics, this ornamentation being especially applicable to gauze, tarlatan,
tulle, and other light fabrics.
The following is the mode in which I carry out the Invention :-I take
colored resin or sealing wax, reduce it to powder, and spread it on a table;
I then place the fabric to be ornamented on the pulverized matter and impress
any suitable design thereon by the aid of an adhesive mordant which causes
the pulverized wax to adhere at all points where the mordant is absorbed.
After the fabric is dry I brush off the surplus wax and subject it to the
action of heat in a stove or otherwise, by which means the particles of resinous
matter become fixed and assume a brilliant colored effect. I may also
employ transparent wax in grains, which I sprinkle or otherwise apply on the
fabric to be ornamented; these grains or powder are then melted by the
application of heat and form a transparent bead. I may impart complex
designs in different colors to the fabric by means of a series of plates, such as
dots, stars, flowers, and others, and instead of using wax or resin, substitute
stearine, virgin wax, or paraffine suitably colored.
Having described the nature of this Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. The ornamental fabrics produced in the manner herein-before
described.
Secondly. I claim the several means employed for producing such orna-
mentation, all as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
A. M. CLARK. (L.B.)