A NEW MANUFACTURE OF CRAPE
Year: 1821

page_text: TO: ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS 'SHALL COME, I, JOSEPII
GROUT, of Gutter Lane, Cheapside, in the City of London, Crape Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster,
the Thirteenth day of November, in the second year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Joseph Grout, my exors, adñors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph
Grout, my exors, admiors, and assigns, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
NEW MANUFACTURE OF CRAPE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso, that if I, the said Joseph Grout, shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to, be inrolled in His Majesty's, High Court of. Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after, the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted shall utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Grout, do hereby declare that the nature of my aforesaid Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be practised. and carried into effect, is
fully described and ascertained as follows, vizt;-

page_text: It consists in the production of a superior article of manufacture of silk
crape, having a closer and more compact appearance, and shewing the colour
with which it may be dyed or tinged more fully and richly than crapes which
are manufactured in the ordinary way; and this effect or appearance I produce
by my improvement in the manner of weaving the silk gauze, or first stage of
the crape, for instead of placing one warp thread in each dent of the reed or slay
of the loom, or two threads thrown or twisted together as has been heretofore
done, I place either two, three, or more silk threads, separately thrown or
twisted, and without any connection with each other, in each dent of the reed
or stay, and then proceed to weave and treat the same in the ordinary and
accustomed manner for weaving and finishing silk crape, which being known
to the trade need not be here described. The best silk crape will be produced
by two or three silk threads in a dent, as aforesaid, for although a greater
number of such threads may be introduced, they do not improve the appearance
of the article when finished; and therefore I prefer the use of two or three
threads only, and I ground the merit of my Invention upon these threads
being used in a separate and detached state, or without being thrown, twisted,
or in any way connected together, whereby such a fabric is produced, that
when crimped or craped and finished, it can be immediately distinguished
from crape made in the old and accustomed manner, and is therefore entitled
to be called a new manufacture of crape..
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Grout, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.