IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHAWLS AND SCARFS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Houghton Clabburn, Manufacturer, of Pitt
Street, Norwich, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF SHAWLS AND SCARFS."
Sealed the 6th February 1855, and dated the 10th August 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Houghton Clab-
burn at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 10th August 1854.,
:
I, WILLIAM HOUGHTON CLABBURN, Manufacturer, of Pitt Street, Norwich,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF SHAWLS AND SCARPS" to be as follows:-
The principle on which this shawl is made differs from that of all others
hitherto produced, by a combination of colors in the warp and a small portion
only of the shute formerly used. I have succeeded in producing a similar
effect to that which in all fill-over or imitation India shawls was produced, by a
quantity of different colored threads shot in by an equivalent number of
shuttles, which together, being arranged according to the design, went to form
one shute, and the superfluity of material thereby created had to be cut from
the back; but in my new description of shawl, by using the warp ("to form a

page_text: part of the figure") in some instances with a variety of colors, and in others
with a single color, I reduce the number of shuttles, avoid that immense
waste of material, and obviate the objection raised against the cutting of the
superfluous stuff. In my articles, as in the real Indian productions, the shuto
is firmly bound in, in the process of weaving.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Houghton Clabburn in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th February 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HOUGHTON CLABBURN, Manufacturer, of Pitt Street, Norwich, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Houghton Clabburn, Her special license that I, the said
William Houghton Clabburn, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHAWLS AND SCARPS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Houghton Clabburn, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Houghton Clabburn, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
The principle on which these shawls and scarfs are manufactured differs
from all others hitherto produced, by a combination of colors in the warp and
a small portion only of the shute formerly used. I have succeeded in producing
a similar effect to that which in all "tell-over" or imitation India shawls was

page_text: produced, by a quantity of different colored threads shot in by an equivalent
number of shuttles, which together, being arranged according to the design,
went to form one shute, and the superfluity of material hereby created had to
be cut from the back; but in my new description of shawl, by using the warp
(to form a part of the figure) in some instances with a variety of color, and
in others with a single color, I reduce the number of shuttles, avoid that
immense waste of material, and obviate the objection raised against the
cutting of the superfluous stuff. In my articles, as in the real Indian pro-
ductions, the shute is firmly bound in, in the process of weaving.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Houghton Clabburn, have here.
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of January, in the
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
ycar
WILLIAM HOUGHTON CLABBURN. (L.S.)