A NEW METHOD OF DYING, STAINING, AND COLOURING BEAVER AND BEAVER HATS COMMONLY CALLED FELT OR BEAVER, OR STUPP HATS, GREEN OR ANY OTHER COLOUR UNDERNEATH OR ONE SIDE ONLY, PRESERVING THE NATURAL COLOUR ON THE OTHER SIDE
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
GOLDING, of the Parish of Saint Olave, Southwark, in the County of Surry,
Hat Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
First day of January, in the twenty-second year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Robert Golding, His especial licence that I, the said Robert
Golding, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF DYING, STAINING,
AND COLOURING BEAVER AND BEAVER HATS COMMONLY CALLED FELT OR BEAVER,
OR STUPP HATS, GREEN OR ANY OTHER COLOUR UNDERNEATH OR ONE SIDE ONLY,
PRESERVING THE NATURAL COLOUR ON THE OTHER SIDE;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Robert Golding,
by writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months

page_text: after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (rela-
tion being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Golding, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a New Method
of Dying, Staining, and Colouring Beaver and Beaver Hats commonly called
Felt or Beaver, or Stuff Hats, Green or any other Colour underneath or on
one Side only, preserving the Natural Colour on the other Side, is described
in the manner following (that is to say) :-
First, the nap of the hat on the side intended to be dyed is to be raised
with a card, then boiled in alum and argle, and afterwards a thin paste made
of flour or clay spread with a painter's brush over every part of the hat not
intended to be dyed, then closed; or they may be pasted first, and then, instead
of being boiled, must be only simmer'd in the same liquor. As soon as the
paste in either case is spread, plates of copper, or any other metal or thin
boards, nearly of a triangular form, or an instrument of the same materials
shaped like a common funnell, are fixed over and upon the paste to prevent
the dye coming through, and sometimes pasted and closed together without
plates or boards. Then a small plate with the initials of the dyer's name is
fixed or fastened to that part of the hat intended for the inside crown, which
admits such initials being dyed therein at the time the hat is dyed. In this
state the hat is put into the dying liquor boiling or almost boiling, and remains
there till the colour proposed is sufficiently fixed. It is afterwards taken
out, opened, and cleansed from the paste, and if any spots have got through
they are removed by being washed with a small mop of linen rags dipped in
a strong alkali infused in hot water; but as a yellow spot or iron mould will
remain, such spots are removed by washing them by a small quantity of
spirits of salts, aqua fortis, or, vitriol infused in cold water, and run out with
a piece of board or stamper made for the purpose of making the hats clean
from the filth and water after having been dyed and washed as aforesaid.
The compounds made use of in dying are furstic, tameric, ebony would,
safflower, sachrum, alum, argle, indigo, and vitriol, with chamberly or pearl
ash, at the option of the dyer; sometimes all used together, sometimes
otherwise, according to the intention of the dyer, according to the colour
required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Golding, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of April, One thousand seven
:
ROBT GOLDING. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of
April, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Robert Golding came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of Their
late Majestys King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Twenty-fourth day of April, in the year above
mentioned.