Improvements in the Production of Pictures from Woven Fabrics, Paper, Leather, Metal Foil, Wood Veneer, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Production of Pictures from Woven Fabrics,
Paper, Leather, Metal Foil, Wood Veneer, and the like.
We, FERDINAND HORN and JULIUS FRANK, both of Koniggrätzerstr., Berlin,
in the German Empire, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a process for the production of relief and other pictures
from woven fabrics, paper, leather and other sheet materials without stamping.
Pictures of this nature have hitherto been produced by a stamping process or
operation which method necessitates the use of a yielding material as a foundation
for the fabric representing the picture, therefore such pictures must almost
exclusively be made upon flat surfaces accessible from both sides and suitable for a
stamping operation, whilst curved surfaces and hollow bodies the interior of which
is not accessible are unsuitable therefor.
In carrying out the invention owing to there being no stamping operation
required, the fabric, etcetera, pictures may be produced upon objects of any desired
material or form and as only tools of a simple kind are required the process is
suitable not only for manufacturers but also for dilettanti and amateurs of artistic
hand work.
The process consists in furnishing the object, which may be of earthenware,
porcelain, glass, wood or metal, or also of a yielding material such as woven fabric,
paper, leather and the like,-to be provided with the picture with the recessed, level
or raised outlines or contour thereof, and if it should be desired, also a coloured
ground on which both the outline and the picture to be afterwards laid on will
stand out effectively. By way of example, in order to produce a bunch of flowers
on a sheet of glass, this is first coated with aluminium as a background so as to
give a bright metallic appearance. The stalks of the flowers and the outlines of
the leaves and flowers are then painted on, say in gold, in distinct and not very
fine lines, and burnt in. The outlines may of course also be produced in another
convenient manner say recessed or in relief, all that is essential being that the
picture shall have such outlines. Pieces suitably cut out of one or more of the
sheet like materials referred to, say in this case silk fabric are then fixed by glue
or other viscous substance within the cutlines and so as to cover the enclosed
surfaces when the picture may be said to be substantially finished. It may however
be perfected by painting, toning down or by the application thereto of suitably
shaped plastic parts for the purpose of giving a natural appearance to the object
represented. Pictures produced in this way have the appearance of fancy needle-
work, paintings, or plastic figures or objects, which latter may also be obtained by
fixing relief pieces upon the surfaces between the outlines and then covering them
with the material representing the picture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
A process for the production of pictures without stamping, consisting in furnishing
obiects of and convenient form and material with outlinge aither level recessed

page_text: or raised, of the picture to be produced and within the spaces so formed fixing
pieces of sheet material cut out to pattern which pieces may be underlaid, overlaid
or painted, substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of February 1894.
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THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.