Improvements in the Manufacture of Lace or Openwork Fabrics.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 26th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 28th Oct., 1887
Improvements in the Manufacture of Lace or Openwork Fabrics.
1, JAMES YATE Johnson, of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the county of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention which has been
communicated to me from abroad by Charles Juncker, of 41 rue de Bondy, Paris, in
the Republic of France, Artist, to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the production of lace or open-work fabrics
obtained as hereinafter described by working embroidery upon a material or substance
forming a temporary ground or support which is afterwards removed or caused to
disappear, leaving the embroidery work intact.
In carrying out this invention a soluble sheet of gutta percha or the like is employed
as a ground and any desired pattern or design is traced or drawn thereon. This sheet
is then embroidered either by hand or by a machine with wool, silk, or cotton, thread,
chenille, wire, or other suitable material, care being taken to suitably connect together
the several parts of the embroidery so formed. This embroidery work is then
converted into a lace or openwork fabric by dissolving away the gutta percha sheet
or other temporary support in a bath of sulphide of carbon, benzine, or other suitable
solvent, heated or otherwise, and not liable to injure the embroidery.
Dated this 31st day of December 1886
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.,
Agent for the said James Yate Johnson.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Lace or Open Work Fabrics.
I JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention which has been
communicated to me from abroad by Charles Juncker of 41 Rue de Bondy Paris in
the Republic of France Artist.
This Invention relates to the production of lace or open work fabrics by
working embroidery lace or open work upon a material or substance forming a
temporary ground or support which is afterwards dissolved leaving the lace or
embroidery or like open work intact and has for its object to provide means whereby
not only undyed vegetable fibres can be used for the lace or open work but also
animal fibres (dyed or undyed) and dyed vegetable fibres. In performing this
Invention a sheet of a material which can be dissolved without injury to animal fibres
or to the colours of dyed animal or vegetable fibres such for example as gutta percha
or the like is taken and employed as a ground or support upon which any desired
pattern or design is traced and embroidered or worked either by hand or by a machine
with woollen silken or cotton thread, chenille, wire or other suitable material which
may be dyed or undyed, care being taken to connect together the portions of the
embroidery lace or like open work so formed. This embroidery lace or open work
upon its sheet or support is then submitted to the action of a solvent which will
dissolve the material of which the sheet or support is formed without affecting
animal fibres or the colours of dyed fibres which may be present in the lace
or open work so that the said sheet or support is dissolved away leaving the
desired lace or open work intact without the sheet or support upon which it
was embroidered or worked. A bath of Sulphide of Carbon or one of benzine
heated to 50° Centigrade or thereabouts forms a suitable solvent for a sheet or support.
of gutia percha or the like. The embroidery threads or materials can be of the most
delicate nature and colours and animal or vegetable fibres or both combined may be
used and the solvent will not injure them as it is well known that the benzine
used by dyers and cleaners in the dry cleaning process does not injure the tissues
treated with it but on the contrary restores their freshness and brightness of
appearance.
The lace or open work produced according to this Invention it is intended shall be
known as "Jeanette."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Inven-
tion and in what manner the same may be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
First. The manufacture of lace or open work fabrics by embroidering or working by

page_text: machine or by hand the desired lace or open work upon a sheet or support of a material
capable of being dissolved by a solvent which will not injure animal fibres or the
colours of dyed animal or vegetable fibres which may be employed in making the lace
or open work and then dissolving the said sheet or support with such a solvent and
leaving the desired lace or open work fabric substantially as hereinbefore described.
Second. The manufacture of lace or open work fabrics by embroidering or working
by machine or by hand the desired lace or open work upon a sheet of Gutta Percha
and then dissolving the gutta percha by sulphide of carbon or benzine heated to
about 50° Centigrade substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 24th day of September 1887.
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent.