MANUFACTURING SILK AND MOHAIR, EITHER SEPARATELY OR JOINTLY, WITH MATE- RIALS WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN COMBINED OR MANUFACTURED TOGETHER, AND WHICH BY ME IS CALLED VENETIAN SATTIN
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
PHIPPS, of the Parish of St. Magdalen, Milk Street, Cheapside, Weaver, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Seventh day of November, in the twenty-seventh year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said Robert Phipps, His especial licence, that I,
the said Robert Phipps, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention or method, intirely new, of
"MANUFACTURING SILK AND MOHAIR, EITHER SEPARATELY OR JOINTLY, WITH MATE-
RIALS WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN COMBINED OR MANUFACTURED TOGETHER, AND
WHICH BY ME IS CALLED VENETIAN SATTIN;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Robert Phipps, 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 Majestie's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Phipps, do hereby declare that my said Invention or method of
manufacturing what I call Venetian sattin consists of mixing willow, poplar,

page_text: asp, or any kind of wood or cane; reed, rush, straw, hay, leather, paper, parch-
ment, vellum, or wire, either as warp or shute, with silk, mohair, worsted, yarn,
cotton, thread, incle, hemp, and flax, by every variation and every tye, and every
mode of weaving, plain or figured, now in use amongst weavers (viz*, 1st.):-
The cane consists of silk entered in a harness of four, six, eight, or more
lams; one, two, or more threads in the lists to work one lish in a reed or
dent, and rise one or more lams; shute with willow, poplar, asp, or any other
kind of wood, dyed or stained, whitened or bleached, or as cut from the tree,
with a gage, and plain, or otherways, likewise shute cane, or reed, or rush,
or straw, or hay, or leather, or paper, or parchment, or vellum, or wire cut
or prepared for that purpose and wove with a twill or bias. 2d. The cane
consists of silk, shute with willow, or poplar, or asp, or any other kind of wood,
(dyed or stained, whitened or bleached, or as cut from the tree, as mentioned
before in part the 1st; cane, or reed, or rush, or straw, or hay, or leather, or
paper, or parchment, or vellum, or wire cut or prepared for that purpose, with
or without silk, or mohair, or worsted, or yarn, or cotton, or thread, or incle,
or hemp, or flax, wove as Florentine damask, tabby, sattin, sattinett, figured or
plain, striped, clouded, masqueraded, or velvet, or shag, or any other tye or made
of weaving. 3d. The cane consists of mohair, with or without silk, or worsted,
or yarn, or cotton, or thread, or incle, or hemp, or flax, and shute with willow,
poplar, asp, or any other wood, dyed or stained, whitened or bleached, or as
cut from the tree, as before-mentioned in part the 1st; or shute cane, or reed,
or rush, or straw, or hay, or leather, or paper, or parchment, or vellum, or
wire cut or prepared for that purpose, and wove as a Florentine callimanco,
damask, tabby, sattin, sattinett, figured, striped, clouded, masqueraded, or
velvet, or shag, or any other tye or mode of weaving. 4th. The cane consists
of worsted, or yarn, or cotton, or thread, or incle, or hemp, or flax, shute with
willow, or poplar, or asp, or any other wood, dyed or stained, whitened or
bleached (or as cut from the tree, as mentioned in part the 1st); or cane, or
reed, or rush, or straw, or hay, or leather, or paper, or vellum, or parchment, or
wire, cut or prepared for that purpose, with or without silk, mohair, yarn, cotton,
thread, incle, hemp, or flax, and wove plain or figured, striped or clouded,
masqueraded, or as a Florentine damask, sattin, or sattinett, tabby, velvet,
or shag, or any other tye or mode of weaving. 5th. The cane consists of
willow, or poplar, or asp, or any other wood, dyed or stained, whitened or
bleached, or as cut from the tree, as before-mentioned in part 1st; shute
with silk, or mohair, or worsted, or yarn, or cotton, or thread, or incle,
or hemp, or flax, each separately or jointly, or mixed with willow, or poplar,
or asp, or any other wood, dyed or stained, whitened or bleached, or as cut

page_text: from the tree (as before-mentioned in part the 1st); or mixed with cane, or
reed, or rush, or straw, or hay, or leather, or paper, or vellum, or parchment,
or wire cut or prepared for that purpose, wove figured or plain, striped or
clouded, or masqueraded, or as a Florentine damask, sattin, or sattinett, tabby,
or velvett, or shagg, or any other tye or mode of weaving. 6th. The cane
consists of silk, or mohair, or worsted, or yarn, or cotton, or thread, or incle,
or hemp, or flax mixed with wire, or willow, or poplar, or asp, or any other
sort of wood, dyed or stained, whitened or bleached, or as cut from thetree, as
before mentioned in part the 1st; shute silk, mohair, worsted, yarn, cotton,
thread, incle, hemp, or flax, separately or jointly, with wire, or willow,
poplar, asp, or any other sort of wood, dyed or stained, whitened or bleached,
or as cut from the tree (as before-mentioned in part the 1st); or mixed with
cane, or reed, or rush, or straw, or hay, or leather, or paper, or parchment, or
vellum cut or prepared for that purpose, wove figured or plain, or as a
Florentine damask, sattin, sattinett, or any other tye or mode of weaving.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Phipps, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.
Inrolled the Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.