MAKING LADIES' ELASTIC HABITS AND GENTLE- MEN'S COATS WITHOUT SEAMS
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
KEY, of Portsmouth Street, of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, in the
County of Middlesex, Taylor, 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 Twenty-fifth day of November last past, hath given and granted unto me,
the said James Key, my exors, adñors, and assigus, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, to make, use, exer-
cise, and vend my Invention of "MAKING LADIES' ELASTIC HABITS AND GENTLE-
MEN'S COATS WITHOUT SEAMS," within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging
me, the said James Key, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description and ascertainment 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 one calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and
by the same Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Key, in compliance with the
said provisoe, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in the following description thereof, that is to say :—

page_text: To make the Body of the Ladies' Elastic Habit.-Take a piece of cloth
one yard and a quarter in length, and one yard and a quarter in width, or
more, if the size of the person by whom the habit is to be worn should require
more; then double the cloth across the grain, and make the middle or bend of
the cloth so doubled the back of the habit; then extend the measure across the
cloth as far as the size of the person who is to wear the habit requires, and
cut the cloth to the measure; then lay the measure lengthways, or down the
length of the cloth, and cut the cloth to the length of the mensure; shape tho
arm hole or hole for the sleeve in the usual and accustomed way. The collar
and upper part of the habit must also be shaped in the usual and accustomed
manner, or according to the fashion.
To Shape the Sleeves without a Scam Behind.-Lay the measure at the
upper corner of the cloth from which you have cut the body, and bring it
across the grain of that cloth as far as the elbow mark of the measure; then fold
the cloth so intended for the sleave above and below the elbow a quarter of
the size of the arm of the person for whom the habit is intended, making the
length of the sleeve above and below the elbow, according to the length of the
arm of the person for whom it is to be made, and keeping the dressed side of
the cloth outwards; and when the cloth intended for the sleeve is so folded, cut
a picco out of the elbow sufficiently large to shape the sleeve to the arm and
to let the cloth lay even.
:
To Shape the Sleeve without a Scam Before.-Fold the opposite side, or
side of the cloth not before folded, another quarter of the size of the arm down
to the elbow joint in front, then cut a straight nick directly across that part of
the cloth last folded in the bend of the arm, then fold the same width of the
cloth from the olbow to the wrist; in the same manner the cloth is folded for
the upper part of the arm, and put in at the bend of the arm before a piece of
cloth or gussett sufficiently large to fill up or supply the vacancy which will be
occasioned by the before-mentioned nick and folding of the cloth, and of
sufficient size to keep the sleeve in proper shape and proportion; and let all
the seams of the habit be rantered or fine drawn, to prevent hair powder, dust,
or dirt, from' lodging therein.
To make Gentlemen's Elastic Coats.-To make the body of the elastic coat,
táko a piece of cloth two yards and one quarter in length, and one yard and
three quarters in width, or more, if the size of the person by whom the coat is
to be worn should require. Extend the measure across the cloth as far as the
size of the person who is to wear the cont requires, and cut the coat as low as
the waist to the measure; then cut the fore parts across the waist from the hip
under the pocket flap, but the back the length of the measure; take the

page_text: tack-over of the left back skirt from the under skirt, and put on a whole or
intire under skirt, then take cloth and make the fore part skirts of a proper
size for the person for whom the coat is intended; shape the arm-hole or
hole for the sleeve in the usual and accustomed way. The collar and upper
part of the coat must also be shaped in the usual and accustomed manner, and
according to the fashion. The sleeve of the coat without a seain before or
behind is to be made exactly in the same manner as the sleeve of the habit
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Key, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in the thirty-fifth year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
JAMES KEY. (L.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of De-
cember, in the year of our Lord 1794, the aforesaid James Key came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Indenture
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Indenture aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four..