IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF ORNAMENTAL LACE AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Matilda Friedeberg at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1876.
MATILDA FRIEDEBERG, of Hamsell Street, Falcoln Square, in the City of London.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF ORNAMENTAL LACE AND
IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF."
This Invention relates to the manufacture or production of an improved orna-
mental lace, and in the means employed in manufacturing or producing the same.
For this purpose ornamental lace of a rich and novel character is made or produced
in accordance with my Invention by embroidering plain net or lace in sewing
or embroidering machinery, and one part of my Invention consists in stiffening, and
thus rendering the net or lace fit for being embroidered in like manner to that in
which other fabrics of a more firm and substantial texture are embroidered in
sewing or embroidering machines, as is well understood.
In order to prepare the plain net or lace so as to render it sufficiently stiff and
rigid to admit of its being passed through and embroidered by a sewing or
einbroidering machine, in accordance with one part of my improvements I unite or
combine it with another piece of plain net or lace, gauze, or other light fabric (which
may be of an inferior quality to that which it is intended to embroider) in order
to strengthen and thus afford support to the net whilst being operated upon by the
embroidering machine. This stiffening process may be effected either by means of
size applied to the inferior net or foundation fabric, and then passing the two
pieces of net placed together between heated rollers, or by applying heat and
pressure thereto by other ineans.
In some cases the sizing of the net may be dispensed with, the two surfaces of
net being united by pressure alone, and thus rendered sufficiently stiff to admit of
their being handled and subjected to the embroidering operation.
For some purposes the net to be embroidered may be sized and dressed to such
an extent as to admit of its being operated upon and embroidered without the
aid of the additional net or fabric to support it whilst operated upon or em-
broidered.
Figured lace or net made in ordinary lace machinery may be enriched by
embroidery, if desired, by preparing it in like manner to that previously described,
so as to render it sufficiently rigid to be operated upon by a sewing or embroidering
machine

page_text: The machine which I have found most advantageous for embroidering net or lace
in accordance with my improvements is that known as Bounaz embroidering
machine," for which Letters Patent were granted to Williain Edward Gedge, dated
25 Nov. 1868, No. 3590, but I do not limit myself to the use of this particular
machine, as that well known as the Excelsior and other sewing or embroidering
machines of like character may be employed in carrying out my improvements.
After the net or lace has been embroidered the net or fabric forming the back or
foundation is removed by clipping or cutting away the superfluous threads, as is
well understood.
By the means previously described very rich and highly ornamental lace of any
suitable width and length may be made or produced from plain or other net in
accordance with my Invention.