AN INTIRE NEW AND ORIGINAL METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING A SILK STUFF NEVER MADE IN THIS KINGDOM BEFORE, OF THE SAME SORT AND KIND WITH THAT KNOWN AND DISTINGUISHED BY THE DIFFERENT NAMES OF ITALIAN CRAPE AND TIFFANY, WHICH HAS BEEN DEMON- STRATED BY THE REPEATED TRIALS AND EXPERIMENTS OF SEVERAL EMINENT MANUFACTURERS
Year: 1768

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JAMES
CROOKSHANK, of the City of Coventry, Weaver, and WILLIAM NORTON, of the
same place, also Weaver, send greeting.
WHEREAS the said James Crookshank and William Norton did, by their
Petition, humbly represent unto His most Excellent Majesty King George the
Third (amongst other things), that they had, by long study, pains, and expence.
found out and invented "AN INTIRE NEW AND ORIGINAL METHOD OF MAKING
AND MANUFACTURING A SILK STUFF NEVER MADE IN THIS KINGDOM BEFORE,
OF THE SAME SORT AND KIND WITH THAT KNOWN AND DISTINGUISHED BY THE
DIFFERENT NAMES OF ITALIAN CRAPE AND TIFFANY, WHICH HAS BEEN DEMON-
STRATED BY THE REPEATED TRIALS AND EXPERIMENTS OF SEVERAL EMINENT
MANUFACTURERS;" and thereby prayed His Majesty to grant unto them His
Letters Patent for the sole working, making, and vending of the said silk stuff,
called by the different names of Italian crape and tiffany, made by and after
their particular and new Invention, and His said Majesty, being graciously
pleased to condescend to their request, did, by His Letters Patent, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of December, in the ninth year of His
reign, give and grant unto the said James Crookshank and William Norton,
their executors, adñiors, and assigns, special licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that they, the said James Crookshank and Williamı
Norton, their executors. adiñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by them-
selves, or by their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as they,
the said James Crookshank and William Norton. their executors, adiiors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of fourteen years therein expressed,

page_text: should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend the said silk stuff,
called by the different names of Italian crape and tiffany, made by and
after their particular and new Invention, within that part of His Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to them, the said James Crook-
shank and William Norton, their exccutors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of
them, should in their discretion seem meet; and that they, the said James
Crookshank and William Norton, their executors, admors, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, increasing, and arising, by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein men-
tioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said license, powers, priviledges,
and advantages by the said Letters Patent granted, or mentioned to be granted,
unto the said James Crookshank and William Norton, their exors, adñors,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if the said
James Crookshank and William Norton, or one of them, shall not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of them, and cause the same to be
inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four 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,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, more fully and at large may
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that they, the said James Crooksbank and William
Norton, do, by this instrument in writing under their hands and seals, parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, in manner following, that is to
say):
To make crapes, take fine single silk thrown or twisted very hard, viz, to a
much higher degree than has been hitherto used for any manufacture in this
kingdom, and not less than twenty throws or twines in an inch; hard thrown
silk being essential to the making of grapes. Weave the silk after the common
method, and according to the breadth of the goods it is intended for. In the

page_text: body of the work put one single thread in a read, and two or more threads in
a read upon the edges, as the selvidges are intended to be made either richer
or poorer. After the silk is wove, take two netts of thread or silk, or thread
or silk laid crossways in imitation of netts or nettwork. Put the silk so wove
between the netts or nettwork, and pour hot or boiling water or any other hot
liquid over them, which produces the shrivel or curdle in the crape; after-
wards dye it, and then dress it, according to the common rules generally used
in dressing of gauzes. And to make tiffanies, take fine single silk, thrown
or twisted very hard, viz, about one half part as hard as the silk for crapes,
and weave dry, and dress it in the same manner as is above directed in the
making of crapes.
In witness whereof the said James Crookshank and William Norton
have hereunto set their hands and seals, this Twenty-fourth day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-
nine