A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular properties of fur, wool, and hair . seen by comparing dyed articles with thosethat are of a native color. Pumicing or Pouncing. Pouncing is a term for rubbing down the outsideof a hat with a piece of pumice stone, sand paper, oremery paper, whereby the hat is made entirely bare,smooth, and fine, resembling a piece of very finecloth. These are generally called cassimere operation is usually performed after dyeing, andprevious to finishing. Some makers, however, pre-fer to singe the hats instead of pounci
A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular properties of fur, wool, and hair . seen by comparing dyed articles with thosethat are of a native color. Pumicing or Pouncing. Pouncing is a term for rubbing down the outsideof a hat with a piece of pumice stone, sand paper, oremery paper, whereby the hat is made entirely bare,smooth, and fine, resembling a piece of very finecloth. These are generally called cassimere operation is usually performed after dyeing, andprevious to finishing. Some makers, however, pre-fer to singe the hats instead of pouncing, but such 49 hats never feel so fine as the others, as the singingof any hair invariably produces a hard crisp burntknob upon the end. Finishing.* When a hat arrives at that state of forwardnessready for finishing, it is a very unsightly object toany person but a hatter. Most of its processes havebeen wet ones, but now it is to assume a genteel andprepossessing appearance, under the artistic appli-ances of brushes, cloths, hot irons, and labored ex-ercise. If a plain soft hat, it is pulled over such a Fig. Hat Iron. block as is required, a cord is run round the hat tokeep it tight upon the block; the tip and brim arethen flattened with the hot iron, wet sponge, brushes,and hair-cloth cushion or velure, several wettingsbeing necessary in finishing. The brim is next cut to the required width, andthe cord run down to the depth of the block. The * As every hat must be finished upon a block of some particularform, upon which the bat assumes the exact counterpart, itbecomes necessary with those having broad tops, that the block bein five separate pieces, so as to get them out or into the hat, thecentre piece acting as a wedge to the whole. 50 side-crown is now to be finished, along with the tipand upper and under sides of the brim, the hatterexercising his best judgment. The block is thenwithdrawn, the brim curled and set, and the finishedhat sent off to the trimmer to get lin
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