Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Tapestry.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Tapestry.
I, FELIX DE LA CHAUX, of 8, Boulevard de Sébastopol, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture and production of
hand worked tapestry and has for its object to produce novel tapestries more
varied in style with greater contrasts and more nearly approaching pictures in
resemblance than have been obtainable hitherto.
According to my invention I combine in one piece of work on a foundation of
canvas or other fabric the various stitches which have been hitherto used for
separate styles of work on different individual pieces of tapestry and by the com-
bination of these various stitches of different style on one and the same piece of
work I obtain tapestry having the superior novel effects already mentioned.
In designing tapestry according to my invention I make a selection of the
various well known stitches to suit the subject to be worked.
"
For example, for the background of the picture or design forming the tapestry
I may use the ordinary tapestry stitch, for any architectural or other subject ju
the picture requiring more prominence I may employ the "Gobelin" stitch, and
or
Aubusson
this may be varied with the
Beauvais" stitch, while for the
figure or the like constituting the main subject of the picture I may employ the
stitch known as "petit point" for the draperies, which stitch may be obtained
by dividing the meshes of the canvas when working on this material, so as to
secure the required smaller size stitch; for the face and arms of the figure or
petit
the like requiring most prominence I may also employ the stitch known as
point" but with a still finer mesh, which may be obtained by superposing on the
fabric of the tapestry (whether canvas or other material) a very fine canvas cloth
or fabric having a uniform mesh throughout.
Dated this 5th day of September 1898.
"
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Tapestry.
I, FELIX DE LA CHAUX, of 8, Boulevard de Sébastopol, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
Dine S71

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture and production of
hand worked tapestry and has for its object to produce novel tapestries more
varied in style, with greater contrasts and more nearly approaching pictures in
resemblance than have been obtainable hitherto.
According to my invention I combine in one piece of work on a foundation of
canvas or other fabric the various stitches which have been hitherto used for
separate styles of work on different individual pieces of tapestry and by the com-
bination of these various stitches of different style on one and the same piece of
work I obtain tapestry having the superior novel effects already mentioned.
In designing tapestry according to my invention I make a selection of the
various well known stitches to suit the subject to be worked.
«
"
For example, for the background of the picture or design forming the tapestry
may use the ordinary tapestry stitch, for any architectural or other subject in
the picture requiring more prominence I may employ the "Gobelin" stitch, and
this may be varied with the "Ambusson " or' Beauvais " stitch, while for the
figure or the like constituting the main subject of the picture I may employ the
stitch known as petit point for the draperies, which stitch may be obtained
by dividing the meshes of the canvas when working on this material, so as to
secure the required smaller size stitch; for the face and arms of the figure or
the like requiring most prominence I may also employ the stitch known as petit
point" but with a still finer mesh, which may be obtained by superposing on the
fabric of the tapestry (whether canvas or other material) a very fine canvas cloth
or fabric having a uniform mesh throughout.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is;-
1. In the manufacture of tapestry the combination in one piece of work of
stitches of various styles substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The manufacture and production of tapestry substantially as hereinbefore
set forth.
Dated this 5th day ...
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX.
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.