ORNAMENTING LACE OR OTHER TWISTED FABRICS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hutchinson Mason, of the Town and County
of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, and George Lee
Baxter, also of the said Town and County of the Town of Nottingham,
Dyer, for the Invention of " ORNAMENTING LACE OR OTHER TWISTED
FABRICS."
Sealed the 12th August 1859, and dated the 23rd May 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hutchinson Mason
and George Lee Baxter at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 23rd May 1859.
We, JOHN HUTCHINSON MASON, of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, and GEORGE LEE BAXTER, also of the said
Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Dyer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "ORNAMENTING LACE OR OTHER TWISTED
FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in using one or more threads to form patterns or
ornamentation in lace or other twisted fabrics where two or more colors in one

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Hutchinson Mason and George Lee Baxter in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 23rd November 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
HUTCHINSON MASON, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham,
Lace Manufacturer, and GEORGE LEE BAXTER, also of the said Town and
County of the Town of Nottingham, Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said John Hutchinson Mason and George Lee Baxter, Her special licence
that we, the said John Hutchinson Mason and George Lee Baxter, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John
Hutchinson Mason and George Lee Baxter, our 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 Inven-
tion for "ORNAMENTING LACE OR OTHER TWISTED FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said John Hutchinson Mason and George Lee
Baxter, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them,
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 we, the said John Hutchinson Mason and George
Lee Baxter, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in using one or more threads to produce patterns or
ornamentation in lace or other twisted fabrics where two or more colours in

page_text: one thread are used, for employment in manufacturing bonnet and cap fronts
and rouches, and for other purposes.
Having thus set forth the nature of our said Invention, we now proceed
fully to describe the manner of performing the same. In the first place, we
prepare a dye liquid of any required colour in the ordinary and well-known
manner that dye liquids are prepared; we then take a skein, or any number
of skeins of silk, cotton, or other material that we may require, or we select a
whole piece of silk, lace, or other fabric, and we wrap such skein, skeins, or
piece with string or other suitable material at certain desired distances, and
according to the number of different colours that may be required on each
thread. This wrapping is so performed as to preserve that part of the
material which is so wrapped or covered from the action of the dye liquid,
and render it quite impervious thereto upon our immersing the article into.
it. We then dip or immerse the skein or skeins, lace, or other fabric or
material in the dye liquid, and after the same has remained therein a sufficient
time for the requisite colour to be imparted to it, we withdraw it therefrom,
and hang it in a suitable place to dry, and when it is dry we unwrap and remove
the string; the material is then ready for use in the manufacture of bonnet
and cap fronts, rouches, or other articles. Of course it is obvious that when.
we withdraw the fabric or material from the dye liquid, that portion of it
which has been wrapped or covered with string or other suitable material, as
before stated, will have been preserved from the operation of the dye liquid,
and consequently will have remained in the same state and of the same color
as that in which it was immediately before being dipped or immersed in the
liquid dye. It will hence be apparent that there will be two or more colours
on each thread, namely, the colours which have been obtained from the dye
liquid and the original colour (white, brown, or otherwise,) which was pro-
tected from the operation of the liquid dye by the wrapping of the string or
other suitable material, as aforesaid. This, or a similar operation, is repeated
as often as occasion may require, and if more than two colours are required in
one thread, whether it be in skeins or pieces, we repeat the operation of
wrapping string or other suitable material closely round the wrought or
unwrought material or fabric, and in as many parts thereof as there may be
different colours required, before the dipping or immersing of the same in the
dye liquid.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim as our said
Invention for ornamenting lace or other twisted fabrics, the ornamenting of

page_text: two or more colours in one thread for employment in the manufacture of
bonnet and cap fronts and rouches.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hutchinson Mason, for myself,
and on behalf of the said George Lee Baxter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.
JOHN HUTCHINSON MASON. (L.s.)