The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester / from the Original MS., with Historical and Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir

by Marquis of Edward Somerset Worcester

No. LXXV.

How a tape or riband-weaver may set down a whole discourse, without knowing a letter, or interweaving any thing suspicious of other secret than a new-fashioned riband.

NOTE.

The evident analogy between this Article and No. XXXIII. will be apparent on the slightest view, and in general principle it is similar to Nos. XXXIV. XXXV., &c. It may be performed either by making the stitches of a given length, varying the distance to distinguish the different letters of the alphabet; or, by any arbitrary shape which may be previously agreed upon by the parties corresponding. These arrangements being made, the silk weaver will have nothing more to do, than set his loom to the required pattern.