US1474182A - Printed tapestry - Google Patents

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B. A. STROOCK PRINTED TAPESTRY v Nov. 13 1923.

Filed Jan. 2, 1925 K. Eva mm B. MI WI In i 6 I: I a. Inventor flul/a Attorneys Patented Nov. 13, 1923.

IBEBTBAH A. STBOOCK, 0J5 NEWBUBGH, NEW YORK.

PRINTED TAPESTBY.

Application filed January 2, 1923. Serial No. 610,826.

To all wk om it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTRAM A. STROOCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newburgh, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printed Tapestries, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to the productlon of a fabric giving the effect of handwoven tapestry or needle point, which fabric is produced by printing the desired design on a plain fabric which is of special weave, so that by the combination of this special weave and the printing, the desired effect ma be produced.

s is well understood, hand-woven tapestries and needle point are made by workin the design in roperly colored yarns, whic yarns are held in place either by a previously woven fabric or by strands in the natureof a warp. This is done in such manner as to produce the design on the surface of the tapestry with ste ped lines instead of straight or curved ines, at the margins of the figures of the design. By my present invention, I produce tapestry effects similar to those produced by t. e hand-weaving or needle point methods without the time and expense involved in the hand method.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan, on an en arged scale, of a ortion of an illustrative form of lain fabric which I may use as a base for t e printed tapestry; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of ig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a plan of a ortion of the printed tapestry showing t e efiect produced.

Like reference characters indicate like parts in the several views.

In producing the plain fabric which is to be used as a base for the print' to produce the tapestry efiect, I prefera ly use the weave illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, in which relatively heavy, soft, loose-twisted yarn filler strands 10, preferably of wool, are held between interwoven fine, hard-twisted filler strands 11 and fine, hard- twisted warp strands 12 and 13. The warp strands 12 and 13 pass respectively below and above the filler strands 10 and above and below the intermediate filler strands 11, so that each warp strand 13, for instance, passes over each filler strand 10.

The warp strands 13 are spaced apart a peculiar stepped distance approximating the diameter of the soft filler strands 10 and preferably the warp strands 12 are similarly spaced. The warp strands 12 and 13 are drawn down into the body of the filler strands 10, so that a series of squares are formed on the surface of the fabric, each square being determined by the space between a pair of warp strands 13 and a pair of intermediate filler strands 11. In Fig. 2, the warp strands 13 are shown drawn down into the body of the strands 10 and the undulations reduced in these strands by the warp strand; are shown best in Fig. 3. It will be noted by reference to Fig. 3 that not only is the surface of the fabric formed into squares, but the soft yarn constituting the strands 10 is ushed up into small projections between each pair of warp strands. The formation of these projections or mounds is accentuated by the tension on the warp strands on the opposite side of the fabric.

In some tapestry efiects which I have produ'ced, the plain fabric is woven with the strands 11, 12 and 13 in black cotton yarn, and the soft strands 10 in wool having some suitable body or background color, which color may be the original color of the yarn or may be obtained by dyeing the fabric after it is woven.

The next step in the production of the tapestry efi'ect is the printing. This may be carried out in the usual manner of printing on fabrics, as by means of blocks, each arranged to give the desired outline in the desired colors, and I have found that no great care need be used in applying the colors to the fabric in order to produce the formation of the lines of the design as such lines appear in handwoven tapestries and needle point, and as is shown in Fig. 4. This is due to the fact that the small squares formed in the soft, loose-twisted strands 10 absorb the ink readily, but that the running of this ink in these strands stops at the lines at which a strand 10 is compressed by warp'strands, or, in other .words, at the edges of the squares. Consequently, if block printing is used, for instance, and the edge of the printing block strikes any portion of one of the squares, that square tends to become completely colored, but, on the other hand, the coloring from that square does not run into an ad acent square. Conse%1ently the stepped efi'ect indicated at 14 in ig. 4 will be produced, no matter how the lines on the printing surface or the like reg sters with the squares of the fabric. It will be understood, of I course, that 1n ractice, the stepped appearance of the lines is not as exact nor as complete as it would be in hand-woven tapestries or needle point, but such stepping occurs with suficient regularity in my fabric to give the general ap-- pearance o hand-woven tapestry or needle point.

ll claim:

1. A fabric having the appearance of hand-woven tapestry or needle point, comprising interwoven fine, hard-twisted warp strands and alternate fine, hard-twisted and heavy, loose-twisted filling strands, with the heavy filling strands dividedinto squares by the warp strands and with the heavy strands projecting above the warp strands between each pair thereof on the same side of the fabric, said fabric having a desi printed on the projecting portions of t e heavy filling strands with the lines of the design following approximately the boundaries of said squares.

2. A fabric having the appearance of hand-woven tapestry or needle point, comprising interwoven fine, hard-twisted warp strands and heavy, loose-twisted filling strands, with the hea filling strands divided into squares by t e warp strands and with the heavy strands projecting above the warp strands between each pair thereof on the same side of the fabric, said fabric having a design printed on the projecting portion of the heavy filling strands with the lines of the design following approximately the boundaries of said squares. I

3. A fabric having the appearance of hand-woven tapestry or needle point, comprising interwoven fine, hard-twisted warp acre-nan strands and alternate fine, hard-twisted and heavy, loose-twisted fillin strands, the warp strands passing over t e heavy filling strands and under-the fine filling strands and being drawn down into the heavy filling'strand to produce projections of the heavy fillin strands between each pair of warp stran s on the same side of the fabric, and the warp strands on the same side of the fabric being spaced apart a distance equal approximately to the diameter of the heavy filling strands, said fabric having a design printed on the projecting portions of the heavy fillin the design fol owing approximately the boundaries of said pro ections.

t -A fabric adapted to be used in the production of printed tapestry or needle point, comprising interwoven fine, hardtwisted warp strands and heavy, loosetwisted filling strands, with the warp strands passing over the heavy filling strands and spaced apart approximately the diameter of the heavy strands to form squares on the surface of the fabric and with the'heavy strands projecting above the warp strands between each pair thereof. 5. A fabric adapted to be used in the production of printed tapestry or needle point, comprising interwoven fine,v hard-twisted warp strands and alternate heavy, loosetwisted and fine, herd-twisted filling strands, with the warp strand passing over the heavy filling strands and under the fine fillin strands and spaced apart approximate y the diameter of the heavy strands to a form s uares on the surface of the fabric and with the heavy strands projecting above the warp strands between each pair thereof.

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