A NEW KIND OF COTTON GOODS, WHEREIN THE WARP AND WEFT ARE COMBINED AND UNITED TOGETHER, AND THE COLOUR RAISED AND THROWN UP WITH COTTON, SILK, LINNEN, OR WORSTED BY A NEW METHOD, INTO DIAMONDS, WAVES, SPOTS, SPRIGS, FLOWERS, AND OTHER FIGURES
Year: 1795

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
COCKSпOTT, of Bolton-in-the-Moors, 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 Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster
the Eighteenth day of December, now last past, hath given and granted unto
me, the said William Cockshott, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge, and authority, during the term of
fourteen years therein expressed, to make, use, exercise, and vend my Invention
of "A NEW KIND OF COTTON GOODS, WHEREIN THE WARP AND WEFT ARE COMBINED
AND UNITED TOGETHER, AND THE COLOUR RAISED AND THROWN UP WITH COTTON, SILK,
LINNEN, OR WORSTED BY A NEW METHOD, INTO DIAMONDS, WAVES, SPOTS, SPRIGS,
FLOWERS, AND OTHER FIGURES," within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said William Cockshott, particularly to describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, (relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Cockshott, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which is to be performed, is particularly described and ascer-
tained by the description herein-after contained, and the four several Patterns
or Drawings shewn as examples in the margin .hereof, with the references
hereto, and as hereafter set forth, that is to say :-
In all goods manufactured, according to my said Invention, the warps are
the same as for common quiltings, except when it is necessary for the pattern
to be coloured stitching. When the figure is on callico ground without back
weft, then the stitching ends appear on and cover every pick, changing overy
two picks, that is, floating over two threads of weft, as exemplified in the
Pattern or Drawing in the margin hereof, No. 1. When the figure is on
callico ground with back weft, then the stitching ends appear on and cover
every face pick, changing every two face picks, that is, floating over two
threads of face weft, there being two picks of back weft to every four picks of
face, as exemplified in the Pattern or Drawing in the margin, No. 2. When
the figure is on sattin ground without back weft, then there are two different
methods; in the one method the stitching ends appear on and cover every
pick, and changing every four picks, that is, floating over four threads of weft,
ns exemplified in the Pattern or Drawing in the margin, No. 3; and in the
other method, the stitching ends stand up or cover three picks of weft, then go
down one pick before others rise, that is, floating over three picks of weft, and
the stitching not appearing on or covering every fourth pick, and changing
every four picks, as exemplified in the Pattern or Drawing in the margin,
No. 4. When the figure is on jean ground it is worked upon the same principle
as on sattin ground, only varying the cording and treading, so as to make the
jean ground in lieu of tho sattin ground, and as before set forth.. In tho
several Patterns or Drawings in the margin, the lines crossing A, A, show
thic dents in the reed; the figures in each space shew the ends in each dent.
B, B, shew the stitching healds, the figures thereon show the stitching ends;
C, C, shew the healds that work the callico, sattin, or other ground, on which
the figure appears; D, D, from the Figures 1 to 86 inclusive, shew the
manner in which tho yarn is drawn into the healds; E, E, the stitching and
ground fraddles; the figures thereon shew how they must be trodden.
F, F, the sattin traddles; the figures thereon show how it must be trodden.
G, G, the marks or dots between G, G, shew the spring cords that raise the
stitching healds to form the diamond or other figuro H, H; the marks or
ilots between H, H, shew the spring cords that raise the sattin, callico, or jean
healds; but which Drawings in the margin, though shewing the principle of
the Invention, are examples of four patterns only, and must be varied
according to the nature or form of the figure or pattern to be manufactured;

page_text: and I judge it unnecessary to give any more examples or drawings than those
our patterns, as all other patterns or figures, whether worked by healds or
mountains, are invariably worked upon the same principle.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Cockshott, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and in the thirty-.
sixth
1 year of the reign of King George the Third.
W* COCKSHOTT. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the said Twelfth day of January, .
0 in the year above written, the aforesaid William Cockshott, came before our.
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,.
and all and every thing therein contained in form above written. And also
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.