LETTERS, MOTTOES, ETC.
A turned-over mounting or gathered tie will reverse any ornament, but while for borders it makes the ornament come correctly, it prevents letters or words from falling in as they should be read. Thus, if the word CLUB were woven at one side of a cloth, as at A, and the harness mounted as a gathered repeat so as to turn over a similar border to the other side, the letters would fall as at B, making them read correctly to the under side of the cloth instead of to the upper side. Instead of making a gathered tie, it would be better to make a plain repeating tie for the second border, making the word CLUB on both borders as either A or B, according as they are to read correctly on the under or upper side of the cloth; but if it is desired to make the letters read correctly from both sides or edges of the cloth, as at C, it is plain that there must be hooks in the jacquard to work each border independently, as one is not a repeat of the other. Of course letters on damask will only read correctly on either the face or back of the cloth, not on both. The same principle holds good when putting names across the cloth, or for coats of arms and mottoes in the centre, as is frequently done in quilts, tablecloths, &c., but in this case it would be the cards that would do the work. Suppose the word
to be put across a cloth at one end, and it was required to have the same at the opposite end to read similarly from that end of the cloth, it would require to be painted thus,
, or the cards might be cut from the painting of the former, turned upside down. Provided it was required to make these words read correctly on the under side of the cloth in the loom instead of on the upper side, then the first border would be painted and cut as
and the second border as
