A NEW MANUFACTURE OF MIXED AND COLOURED COTTON VELVETS, VELVETEENS, VELVERETS, THICKSETS, CORDS, AND OTHER COTTON PILE GOODS, COMMONLY CALLED FUSTIANS
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BOOND. of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of April instant, hath
given and granted unto me, the said William Boond, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, to make, use, exercise,
and vend my Invention of "A NEW MANUFACTURE OF MIXED AND COLOURED
COTTON VELVETS, VELVETEENS, VELVERETS, THICKSETS, CORDS, AND OTHER COTTON PILE
GOODS, COMMONLY CALLED FUSTIANS," within that part of the said United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said Letters Patent there
is contained (amongst other things) a proviso obliging me, the said William
Boond, particularly to 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 to cause the same be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the now-reciting Patent, as in and by the
same Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Boond, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my

page_text: said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows,
that is to say :-
I take the cotton, after it is picked and batted, or cleared of it's seeds and
other dirt which it may at any time collect by being exposed, and dye it or
get it dyed in the usual way cotton is dyed, either fast or loose colours, to
any shade or colour which fancy may dictate. After it is dyed, I again batt
it, open it, and pick out all the hard knots or lumps that would anyways
injure the cards of the carding machine, and proceed to card, stretch, and rove
it separately in the usual way cotton is carded, stretched, and roved. By this
means I obtain dyed and undyed rovings. I now proceed to spin them toge-
ther thus: I place a dyed roving and an undyed or coloured roving in the
frame or creel of a spinning machine made for that purpose, and spin two or
more rovings together into one thread or one spindle or bobbin. By this
means I make a mixture or mottled thread or weft, which weft I weave into
the aforesaid goods, that is to say, cotton velvets, tabby or Genoa velvetcens,
tabby or Genoa velverets, tabby or Genoa thicksets, tabby or Genoa cords of
every description whatever, or any other description of cotton pile goods com-
monly called fustians. After the goods are woven, proceed to raise the pile or
finish them, so as to shew the mixture or mottle in the pile, thus:-I cut the
face or tuft of the pieces longitudinally in a frame with knives, as fustinns in
the grey are usually cut. After they are cut, I immerge them in lukewarm
water, in which water I sometimes dissolve a little allum, or anything else that
will serve to fasten or brighten the colour, and dry them in the open air or in
When the pieces are well dried, I rub them across or longitudinally
with brushes and a stone, to raise the pile and make it knit together. This
operation I repeat till such time as the pieces are well milled, and the pile
well knit together. Some pieces, when they have undergone this last opera-
tion, will be sufficiently finished and ready for sale, and on others there will
be on the top of the pile a kind of down or ouse, or loose strands of cotton,
that will not knit in with the pile. These (if made of loose colours) I cut off
with a large pair of shears (after the manner woollen cloth is sheared, to clear
the pile and make the mixture more perceptible. This operation of shearing
is repeated till the face or pile is clear to the satisfaction of the manufacturer,
and the pieces is then ready for sale. The goods that are made of such
colours as will stand bleaching I sometimes draw over a red hot iron to clear
the pile, and afterwards bleach the brown off again, and sometimes clear them
by shearing, as above. There are several ways of making this mixed or
mottled thread or weft, such as, first, by the mixing the dyed and undyed or
coloured cotton together before carding; secondly, by stretching dyed and
a stove.

page_text: undyed cardings together on the stretching frame; thirdly, by roving dyed
and undyed stretchings together on the roving frame; fourthly, by dyeing the
weft in the hank, and doubling or twisting the dyed and undyed threads toge-
ther; and, fifthly, by clouding and stamping the weft before it is woven.
these ways I use, but give the preference to spinning the rovings together to
make an eveu mixture, as before.
All
The part or parts I claim as my Invention is, the weaving or manufacturing
mixed or mottled cotton weft or yarn, prepared by the aforesaid means, into
such pile goods as before enumerated, and for finishing the same mixed or
mottled goods after they are woven, so as to make a mixed or mottled pile in
the aforesaid goods, similar to mixed or mottled woollen cloth or kersymere,
by the aforesaid means, which have never been practised before on these kind
of cotton pile goods.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Boond, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of April, in the forty-third year of
the reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (upon
parchment duly stamped), in the
presence of
WILLIAM (L.S.) BOOND.
CHRISR MOORHOUSE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-sixth day of
April, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Boond came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of Ancil in the