INVENTION OF TYING THE SPOTS OF SILK HANDKERCHIEFS IN. THE IMITATION. 07. INDIA HANDKERCHIEPS
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JoпN
PELTBAU, of Upper Moorfields, in the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch,
in the County of Middlesex, Hankerchief Weaver, and WILLIAM NAYLOR, of
the Parish of Saint Dunstan's, Stepney, in the said County, Dyer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, now
King of Great Britain, and so forth, by His Royal Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh
day of July, in the twenty-first year of His said Majesty's reign, did give
and grant unto us, the said John Peltrau and William Naylor, our executors,
admors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that we, the said John Peltrau and William Naylor, should and
lawfully might, during the term of years therein expressed,, make, use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, Domi-
nion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our "INVENTION OF TYING
THE SPOTS OF SILK HANDKERCHIEFS IN. THE IMITATION. 07. INDIA HANDKERCHIEPS,"
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and
advantages, in the said Letters Patent granted to us, the said John Peltrau
and William Naylor, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, for and during the full
end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging us, the said John Peltrau and William
Naylor, by our instrument in writing under our hands and seals, to cause a
particular description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next after the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear...

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
John Peltrau and William Naylor, do hereby declare that our said Invention
of Tying the Spots of Silk Handkerchiefs in the Imitation of India Handker-
chiefs, is described and ascertained in manner following (that is to say:-
Imprimis, while the silk is white prepare it to receive the dye with allum,
sugar of lead, or spirits killed with tin. Then make use of a print, which is to
be used as a guide to the tyers as to the distances of the spots; then pinch up
with the nails such a piece thereof, according to the size of the spot you intend
to make; then fold it three or four times in a triangle, and with thread, silk,
worsted, mohair, small twine, horsehair, or cotton, tye, at about half a quarter
of an inch from the top of the fold, or further, according to the size of the spot
intended to be made, by twisting the thread, silk, worsted, mohair, small twine,
horsehair, or cotton, three or four times round, and tying the same in one or
more knots, by which means, when the hankerchief is dyed, the part so tyed
is preserved from the dye, and remains a white spot, except in the center, which
receives the dye, and remains a spot in the centre of the white spot. The
spots may be tyed with either thread, silk, worsted, mohair, small twine, horse-
hair, or cotton, as before mentioned. And to throw a tint in the corner, or
obliquely across the white spot, to imitate India hankerchiefs, is performed in
the following manner :-By impregnating the thread, silk, worsted, mohair,
small twine, horsehair, or cotton, with which the spot is tyed, with madder,
cochineal, cut bar Brazil brasilett, stick lake, alcanet root, logwood, peach
wood, silvester or kirms berries, and when the hankerchief is in the dye, the
beat of the dye moistens the dye of the thread, silk, worsted, mohair, small
twine, horsehair, or cotton, and throws the colour so impregnated into a corner,
or obliquely across the white spot.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Second day of November, in the twenty-second year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so
forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
eighty-one
Sealed and delivered (being first, duly
stampt) in the presence of us, the
several interlineations being first made,
JOHN (L.s.) PELTRAU.
WILLIAM (L.S.) NAYLOR.
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page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of November, in
the year of our Lord 1781, the aforesaid John Peltrau and William Naylor
came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and spe-
cified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stampt according to the tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the
reign of the late King and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth,
and in the seventeenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Third.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.