A METHOD OF PRINTING OF FANCY PATTERNS ON SILK AND COTTON LACE NET INSTEAD OF TAMBOURING OR WORK- ING THEM IN COLOURS
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1 JOHN
NYREN, of Bromley, in the County of Middlesex, Muslin Bleacher and
Tambour Worker, send greeting.
WHEREAS, His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster the Twenty-seventh day of September last, for Himself, His heirs, and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Nyren, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority that I, the said John Nyren,
my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves.
or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said John Nyren, my exors, adññors, or assigns should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter, during the
term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF PRINTING OF
FANCY PATTERNS ON SILK AND COTTON LACE NET INSTEAD OF TAMBOURING OR WORK-
ING THEM IN COLOURS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, for making the said Letters Patent void, if I, the said John Nyren,
should not, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly

page_text: describe and ascertain the nature of iny said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John
Nyren, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, by the following description
thereof (that is to say) :-
Adopt the ordinary mode of printing on cotton or linen, with the following
variations, additions, or improvements, or such of them as are not used in ordi-
nary printing (that is to say):-The colour to be thickened with gum, but gum
dragon is the best; the lace or net to be pinned or otherwise fastened on a
blanket; the blocks to have large lights left, as the effect will be smaller on lace
or net than on cotton or linen. The pitching pins to have round tops to prevent
their penetrating or going through the lace or net. For the blocks to furnish or
make a solid impression on so hard and wiery a ground as lace or net, they
require much knocking. When one table is finished, the piece is to be lifted
off to shift, and the place to be shifted accordingly; use a wooden frame, or
some other instrument, to keep down the lace or net, whilst the block is lifted
off, as the lace or net. cannot, without being stained, be touched with the hand,
so much colour going through to the blanket. Two impressions cannot be laid
on the same place upon the wet blanket. A piece of laco or net, once begun,
must be finished when wet, as the colour will contract it so much as to prevent
the joinings of. the patterns in the piece. The colours are to be fixed and
cleared by a gentle. steam.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and five.
Sealed: and delivered, being first duly
stamped, in the presence of
J. MILLWARD,
JOHN NYREN. (L.s.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1805, the aforesaid John Nyren 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.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five.