IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS, RUGS, AND OTHER TERRY AND CUT PILE FABRICS
Year: 1885

page_text: Terry and Cut Pile Fabrics.
I GIULIO MARCHETTI of Dean Clough Mills, Halifax, in the county of York,
Carpet Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS, RUGS, AND OTHER TERRY
AND CUT PILE FABRICS " and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to an improved manufacture of carpets, rugs, and other
terry and cut pile fabrics of the tapestry; and tapestry velvet class and the
invention consists in manufacturing such goods by inserting between ordinary
printed parti-coloured threads used for the pile warp, threads that are mottled or
self-coloured in order to produce a novel kind of fabric and give an effect which
I term a sheepy or variegated effect by the juxta-position of the two kinds of
threads.
By my invention I am enabled to produce my improved goods at a less cost than
the ordinary printed tapestry and tapestry velvet carpets, rugs, and other printed
terry and cut pile fabrics and at the same time to obtain novel effects in design and
variegated colouring.
Tapestry and tapestry velvet carpets, rugs and other printed terry and cut pile
fabrics have hitherto usually been composed of a pile warp of worsted or other
suitable material for forming the face of the cloth and of a binding warp, and in
some cases of a stuffing warp, both of suitable material, for forming the back of the
cloth, the face warp and the back warp or warps being bound together by weft of
suitable material.
The whole of the threads forming the pile warp have hitherto been rendered
parti-coloured by being printed with the various colours required by the design
(with the exception of some plain threads used for forming the ground of the
design or for dividing or marginal lines in stair carpets or in the borders of carpets
or other similar fabrics) and each thread has usually consisted of two or more two-
fold threads slightly twisted together, each complete thread thus formed being
printed as desired in the manner well known to those engaged in the trade.
In carrying out my invention instead of forming the whole of the pile warp 'of
printed parti-coloured threads I insert between the parti-coloured printed threads

page_text: mottled threads or self-coloured threads which are arranged either alternately with
the printed threads or at such distances from one another and with such a number
of intervening printed threads as may be required to produce the desired effect
which I term a sheeny or variegated effect.
These mottled or plain threads are drawn into the reed and healds of the loom
in exactly the same manner as if they were ordinary parti-coloured printed
threads.
The mottled threads and self-coloured threads are manufactured in the usual
manner, which is well known, and are composed of any suitable material or
materials. The number of threads of each colour forming one complete mottled
thread may be varied at will.
The accompanying design will serve to illustrate my method of forming the pile
warps partly of printed threads and partly of mottled or self-coloured threads.
a, a, a, a, represent the ordinary parti-coloured printed threads which are printed
to form the required pattern, the different coloured parts being represented by
hatched lines. b, b, b, represent mottled or self-coloured threads, which in the
illustration are shewn used alternately with the ordinary printed threads a, a, a, a.
By my improved mode of manufacture it will be obvious that I am enabled to
produce many different effects of colour, without altering the parti-coloured printed
warp threads, by simply varying the colours of the mottled or self-coloured
threads; and by inserting mottled or self-coloured threads as above described I am
enabled to produce with economy improved carpets and like goods in great
variety.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The method herein described of manufacturing my improved carpets, rugs,
and other terry and cut pile fabrics by the insertion between ordinary parti-
coloured printed threads used for the pile warp, of mottled threads or self-coloured
threads in the manner and for the purposes substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The manufacture and use of my hereinbefore described improved carpets, rugs,
and other terry and cut pile fabrics.