A NEW METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUPAC- TURING CERTAIN CLOTH FOR GENERAL USES AND PURPOSES
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
LOOSEMORE, of the Parish of Saint Luke, Old Street, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Factor, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twentieth day of December last past, hath given and granted unto me,
the said William Loosemore, my executors, administrators, and assigns, special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, to make, use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, during the term of years
therein expressed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUPAC-
TURING CERTAIN CLOTH FOR GENERAL USES AND PURPOSES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Loosemore,
by an instrument in writing under my band and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my 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 recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Loosemore, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly
described and ascertained as follows, that is to say:
My said Invention is to make cloths of different kinds and fabrics fit for

page_text: general uses and purposes, by employing in their fabrication fur or furs of
different kinds, which have never hitherto been spun or woven into cloth or
cloths. For this end the yarn or thread employed in making or manufacturing
cloths as aforesaid is made or spun either from beaver, hares' fur, or rabbits'
fur, singly or from any one of them, mixed, blended, or incorporated with
any one or with both of the other furrs or materials aforesaid, according to the
fineness or other quality intended to be given to the cloth, or according to the
price at which it is intended to be sold; and cloths of other qualities and
prices may, at the pleasure of the manufacturer, be produced by mixing or
incorporating any one, or any two, or all three of the above-named materials,
viz, beaver, bares' fur, or rabbits' fur in any proportions, at the pleasure of
the manufacturer, with wool, or with any other materials that have been
hitherto or that are now employed in making cloth for general uses and pur-
poses, and such mixing or incorporating of one or more furs with wool or
other materials as aforesaid may be effected either when the materials are in
their raw state, that is to say, before they are carded, roved, spun, or made to
pass through any of the usual operations; so that by such carding, roving,
spinning, or other operation they may be thoroughly blended, or such mixing
or incorporating of one or more kinds of fur with the other materials afore-
said may be effected even after they have been separately or in various mixtures
carded, roved, and spun, by disposing, in the process of weaving, threads or
yarn spun from wool of any kind, hair of any kind, flax, hemp, cotton, silk, or
any other material hitherto employed or at present made use of in weaving,
knitting, making, or manufacturing cloths or fabrics of any kind; or such
mixing or incorporating, in the process of weaving one or more kinds of fur
with the other materials aforesaid, after they have been separately or in various
mixtures carded, roved, and spun as aforesaid, may be effected by employing
the proportion of two or more of the threads or yarn made or spun from fur
or furs, or from mixtures in which fur or furs niake a part, to one of the
threads made or spun from wool of any kind, hair of any kind, flax, hemp,
cotton, silk, or any other material as aforesaid; or two or more of the threads
made or spun from wool, hair, flax, hemp, cotton, silk, or any other materials
as aforesaid may be employed in the process of weaving, for one made or
spun from fur or furs, or from mixtures in which fur or furs make a part;
and such mixing or incorporating in the process of weaving may be done by
distributing the different kinds of threads or yarus as aforesaid in the same or
in different proportions to each other, either in the woof or shoot only, or in the
warp only, or in both of them; for instance, the warp may consist wholly of
yarn made or spun from wool, or from hair, or from hemp, or from flax, or from

page_text: silk, cotton, or any other material fit for the purpose, and the mixture of fur
may be thrown in the shoot or woof by employing yarn or thread made or
spun from fur or furs, or from mixtures in which fur or furs make a part, and
such shoot or woof may consist wholly of such yarn or threads aforesaid, or the
shoot with such yarn or threads composed of or containing fur may be alter-
nate or in any other proportion with threads or yarn spun or made from
wool of any kind, hair of any kind, hemp, flax, cotton, silk, or any other
materials as aforesaid. The said mixing or incorporating of threads or yarn
made or spun from fur or from mixtures of fur, or from mixtures of fur or
furs with wool or other materials as aforesaid with threads or yarn made or
spun
from wool, hair, hemp, flax, cotton, silk, or any other fit material, may
also be effected by twisting the respective kinds of threads or yarn along with
each other in equal or in different proportions, and then composing both the
warp and the woof or shoot, cither wholly or partially, of the threads so twisted,
or composing the warp only, or the woof only, either wholly or partially of such
threads. In the various methods already described and exemplified beaver,
hares fur, and rabbits' fur may be made into cloth, either singly, or any two of
them mixed with each other, or all three mixed and incorporated together; and
in like manner in the same piece of cloth any one of them, or any two, or all
three, may be mixed, blended, or incorporated with any one, or any two, three,
or any greater number of the following articles, namely:-wild cat, martin,
musquash, squirrel, fox, otter, and all other furs, British, Spanish, Vigonia, Car-
menia, and all other kinds of wool, camels, goats', and all other kinds of hair,
mohair, hemp, flax, silk, cotton, worstead, and any other articles or materials
that have been, are, or may be employed in the manufacture of cloth, my said
Invention consisting in the employment of fur or furs in their fabrication,
either alone or mixed with other materials as aforesaid, the use or introduction
of fur or furs as aforesaid giving to the cloths composed either wholly or par-
tially of such fur or furs a degree of flexibility, softness, lightness, warmth,
and beauty which cannot be attained in the usual methods of manufacture in
which fur is not employed. And cloths made and manufactured by my new
method may be died of any colour in the usual manner, either by dying the
materials when in the raw state, or by dying the yarn or thread, or by dying
the pieces of cloth after they shall have been woven.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Loosemore, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-seventh day of February, One thousand
eight hundred, and in the fortieth year of the reign of King George
the Third
W. LOOSEMORE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day of
February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Loosemore
came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.