Chapeaux [Hats]
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A French encyclopedia article on hat manufacture, covering felt hats in the most detail: fur and wool selection, secretage with mercury solutions, bowing with the arcon, basting, fulling, dyeing and finishing. It also describes an American machine that forms the felt body by air suction, mechanical felting machines, silk hats, collapsible (Gibus) hats, straw hats (Tuscan straw, Swiss and English production, Ludy's hydraulic finishing machine) and Panama hats. Illustrated with engravings of the fulling shop, bowing tool, felting machines and hat-finishing apparatus.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1891
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 7
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