IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED NET OR LACE
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Birkin, jun'., of Newdigate Street,
Alfreton Road, Nottingham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED NET OR LACE."
Sealed the 21st June 1870, and dated the 26th April 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Birkin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th April 1870.
I, RICHARD BIRKIN, jun*., of Newdigate Street, Alfreton Road,
Nottingham, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED NET OR LACE," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to produce an ornamented net or lace
consisting partly of open meshing or net, and partly of close work or
matting, the open work being white or plain, whilst the matting is
variously colored so as to give internal detail to the pattern of which
the matting is the outline. I take the net or lace as it comes from the

page_text: machine and print upon the matted parts the various colors required
with a series of blocks or printing surfaces made to correspond with
the design of the matting, so that the matting may be colored whilst
the open work or meshing is left plain. The net or lace is then steamed
or otherwise treated by any ordinary known means to fix or clear the
colors, and is afterwards dressed and finished in a manner similar to
that in which plain net or lace is commonly dressed. 'In this manner
a new article of manufacture is obtained, that is to say, an ornamented
net or lace fabric having a ground of plain net with a pattern of close
work with variously colored details printed upon it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Birkin in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th October 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BIRKIN, jun., of Newdigate Street, Alfreton Road, Nottingham, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Richard Birkin, Her special licence
that I, the said Richard Birkin, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Birkin, 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
THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED NET OR LACE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Birkin, my executors or ad-
ministrators, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Birkin, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to produce an ornamented net or
lace consisting partly of open meshing or net, and partly of close work
or matting, the open work being white or plain whilst the matting is
variously colored so as to give internal detail to the pattern of which
the matting is the outline. I take the net or lace as it comes from
the machine & print upon the matted parts the various colors required
with a series of blocks or printing surfaces made to correspond with the
design of the matting, so that the matting may be coloured whilst the
open work or meshing is left plain. The net or lace is then steamed or
otherwise treated by any ordinary known means to fix or clear the colors,
and is afterwards dressed and finished in a manner similar to that in
which plain net or lace is commonly dressed. In this manner a new
article of manufacture is obtained, that is to say, an ornamented net or
lace fabric, having a ground of plain net with a pattern of close work
with variously colored details printed upon it.
The annexed Drawing represent a piece of lace of my new style and
manufacture. The fabric is woven in the lace machine with the design
upon it, and the outline so obtained in weaving is filled in in colors
by the process of block printing. I bleach the lace before printing it
so that the white and plain net ground may be clear and bright. The
lace is shown in the Drawing as it appears when laid on a black surface,
this black surface being seen through the open parts of the fabric.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Birkin, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of October in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
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