A METHOD OR METHODS OF MAKING ORNAMENTAL OR FANCY COTTON YARNS AND THREAD APPLICABLE TO THE MAKING, SEWING, OR EMBROIDERING OF COTTON AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1831

page_text: TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
PIERREPONT GREAVES, of Chorley, in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-second day of December, in the second year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Pierrepont Greaves, my exors,
adñmors, and assigns, His especial licence that I, the said Pierrepont Greaves,
my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD
OR METHODS OF MAKING ORNAMENTAL OR FANCY COTTON YARNS AND THREAD
APPLICABLE TO THE MAKING, SEWING, OR EMBROIDERING OF COTTON AND OTHER
FABRICS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I,
the said Pierrepont Greaves, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause

page_text: the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages what-
soever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Pierrepont Greaves do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist of making ornamental cotton yarns or threads of a great variety of
shades of colour of self and varied colours, by the use of cotton wool dyed the
seven primitive colours and bleached or white cotton, from the admixture of
which in varied proportions I produce new or varied shades of colour, which
by a second admixture of such colours, when so produced, with other admix-
tures producing a different colour, will produce other shades of colour, and
with the addition of a few other colours of dark or light shade, such as taste or
experience may determine, and not to be produced by the previous admixture
of the primitive colours so prepared in cotton, I am enabled to produce an
infinite variety of shades of colour of self and varied colours, difficult if at
all to be obtained by any other method. And in further compliance with the
said proviso, I, the said Pierrepont Greaves, do hereby relate the manner in
which my said Invention is to be performed, by the following description
thereof
Having provided a quantity of cotton wool dyed the seven primitive colours,
and such other dark and light shades of colours as taste or experience may
determine, and also a quantity in a bleached or white state, I take suitable
portions of two, three, or more colours, and, when necessary, a portion of
white to either or any of those separate portions of dyed or coloured cotton,
and with the aid of the usual means and machinery now used in the various
processes of preparing cotton for the purposes of making rovings, and being
spun into cotton yarn for manufacturing purposes, or doubling or twisting into
thread for sewing or embroidering purposes, I so intermix the aforesaid pro-
portions of two, three, or more colours, as to produce a self colour, or varied
shades of coloured cotton, which, when afterwards made into rovings, and spun
into yarn, or doubled into thread, will present new or distinct colours or shades
of colour, different from the original colours so made use of in producing them.
Thus, blue and yellow will produce a fine and fast green, or various shades of
green, according to the proportions in which they are so mixed; blue and
green of various shades will produce various shades of green; blue and red or
pink of various shades will produce various shades of purple and lilac. By

page_text: this method of producing ornamental coloured yarn or thread I am not only
enabled to produce new and varied shades of self and varied coloured yarn,
but also superior colours from those colours, and of a variety of quality and
fineness of yarn equal to that now produced from the same material in its raw
or natural state, and which yarn will be capable of immediate application, to
the purposes of manufacturing, sewing, and embroidering direct from the
spinning or twisting process, without being subject to any of the processes
previously necessary for effecting the same results, and will admit of being
applied to the production of manufactures of a new and finer texture and
variety of pattern, and generally capable of immediate use, without having to
go through any of the bleaching processes, always dangerous, and too frequently
tending to injure both the colour and fabric of such manufacture.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, and the importance and utility of its
application, I do hereby declare that I do not claim any part of the apparatus
or machinery used either in the admixture of the various coloured cotton as
before described, or in the subsequent making of rovings or spinning of the
yarn or thread. But I do claim the production of various coloured yarns, and
shades of coloured yarns, by the admixture of suitable portions of two, three,
or more of the primitive coloured cottons, with white sometimes added, and
such other dark and light shades of other coloured cottons produced from the
primitive colours by the art of dyeing, or that cannot be so produced by this
process, as to produce those varieties of coloured yarn and thread, and shades
of coloured yarn and thread, as herein-before mentioned. And such my Inven-
tion being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never
before used in the production of coloured cotton in yarns, within that part of
His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, His said Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I
hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily
believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects fully and without
reserve or disguise with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent contained. Therefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive
right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Nine-
teenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-two.
PIERREPONT (L.s.) GREAVES.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1882, the aforesaid Pierrepont Greaves came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.