Improvements relating to the Display of Textile Fabrics on Show or Pattern Cards, Labels and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th Aug., 1900-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1900
Improvements relating to the Display of Textile Fabrics on Show or
Pattern Cards, Labels and the like.
I, ROBERT CARDWELL LAW, of Albion Mill, Trumpet Street, Manchester, Litho-
grapher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Printing on textile material of shading representing the folds or contour of
articles of clothing then cutting out the textile material in the shape of say a coat.
or dress or jacket or hat and mounting it on to the surface of a card or paper
suitably printed with a figure of a man, woman or child arranged exactly to fit
the cut out cloth and thus producing the effect of showing a person wearing the
actual textile material without the necessity of cutting the card or paper and
saving expense by using less cloth than the usual plan of cutting the garment
out of the paper or card and mounting the cloth behind the paper.
October 31st 1800
ROBERT CARDWELL LAW.
Improvements relating to the Display of Textile Fabrics on Show or
Pattern Cards, Labels and the like.
I, ROBERT CARDWELL LAW, Trumpet Street, Manchester, Lithographic Printer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed. to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:-
My invention relates to the means of displaying and to the display of textile
fabrics in the manner they are worn, by means of showcards, pattern cards, labels
and the like.
At present it is the practice to cut out from showcards and the like showing
human figures, that portion representing the garments and filling the vacancy
thereby created by placing a larger piece of textile material at the back of the
vacant opening and by representing very imperfectly the folds in the textile
material or the contours of the figures by stamping such folds or contours on to
the material, or by leaving, when cutting out, pieces of paper to represent the
folds or contours, with very indifferent success at the best, and then to line the
whole with a sheet of paper at the back to conceal the undesirable appearance.
My invention consists in printing by lithography typography or other means the
folds or contours of the garment and figure by the ordinary shading on to the
actual textile material, thus procuring an artistic and realistic picture of the

page_text: garment, which is then cut to fit exactly a corresponding shape or space in a
figure of a man, woman, or child in showcards or the like which have been printed
specially to receive the said printed textile representation and into which space
it is then mounted, thus completing the representation. One or more figures may
be thus dealt with in the same showcard or the like.
In practice I may first cover or line the back of the textile material with paper.
The advantages of my invention are
1-Economy in the saving of the amount of the textile material, as no margin
is required to attach the material at the back of the vacant space and no sheet of
paper is required to line the back of the whole when complete, as there is no un-
desirable appearance to conceal. The saving of textile material is important as
that is the item involving the greatest expense, especially in such
woollen cloths, silks and the like.
as fine
2-More realistic effect in the appearance of the garment which, instead of
being sunk behind the cut out space is raised on the surface of the showcard; by
printing by lithography typography or other means the shaded folds or contour
the utmost delicacy can be attained and the thickness or pliability of the material
represented truly whatever form the folds or contour may be required to take.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which it is performed I declare that what I claim is: -
1. The improved combined mode of mounting on to showcards and the like the
actual textile fabric of garments to be represented shaded by means of printing,
with all the required folds and contours to display the garment.
2. Printing by means of lithography, typography or other means employing
printing ink the shading of the folds or contours on the actual textile fabrics,
substantially for the foregoing purposes.
3. The means of displaying such improved results by means of pattern cards,
showcards, labels or other like means substantially as above described.
Dated this 1st day of August 1900.
ROBERT CARDWELL LAW.