Book/Printed Material A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular properties of fur, wool, and hair.
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Image 1 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 2 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 3 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 4 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 5 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... A TREATISE HAT-MAKING AND FELTING?? INCLUDING A FULL EXPOSITION OF THE SINGULAR PROPERTIES OF FUR, WOOL, AND HAIR. r JOHN THOMSON, A PRACTICAL HATTER. PHILADELPHIA: HENRY CAREY BAIRD, INDUSTRIAL PUBLISHER, 406 Walnut...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 6 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by HENRY CAREY BAIRD, in the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 7 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... CONTENTS Descriptions of furs, wools, hairs, c. 11 The fulling mill 24 History of hats and hatting 25 The fashions 28 Preparation of materials 29 Stiffening and water-proofing material. 31 The blowing...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 8 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... t- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 9 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... TREATISE ON HAT-MAKING AND FELTING. It is conceded as an axiom, that theory and practice, in the pursuit of any object, are in their natures es- sentially different and distinct. But at...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 10 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 10 these sheets they will find compensation in the new ideas that will spring from their perusal, which may be an incentive to further improvements in the busi- ness resulting beneficially to...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 11 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 11 tern well knowing that an increase of business, like free trade, will be the result of a right understanding of a formerly supposed mystery, viz., the True cause of Felting. Felt...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 12 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 12 Simple as the idea may be, and though trifling in appearance, yet the study of a single hair is particu- larly interesting, both to the naturalist and the man of business,...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 13 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 13 7th, carbonate of lime in very small quantity 8th, silex in greater abundance; 9th, and lastly, a consider- able amount of sulphur such is the constitution of all furs, wools, hair,...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 14 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 14 we ascend from the equator to the highest latitudes, other things being equal. It has long been a desideratum how to discriminate between the various qualities of htittersfine furs, and no...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 15 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 15 well as the fulling of cloth and the shrinking of flannels, and all articles the material of which is made of wool, hair, or fur. As many branches of business depend...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 16 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 16 plicitly and concisely as possible, with a few proofs of its astonishing power in a collective capacity. The above-mentioned phenomena are the result of that same long-hidden property, and which is...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 17 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 17 profusion. On a single filament of merino wool, as many as 2400 barbed scales, like teeth, projecting from the centre stem, have been counted in the space of one inch. On...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 18 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 18 A friction is produced upon every member composing the mass a footing as it were is obtained from the scales of each, and the fur or wool being all bent or...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 19 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 19 braced its neighbors, and their mutual action defied all attempts to open these stockings.* There are instances of ruminating animals having died from the effect of balls of hair having formed...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 20 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 20 that a pulled hair invariably brings with it its root, in the form of a button or bulb, which would greatly impede its progressive motion in the act of working, as...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 21 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 21 is, that fur that has been kept one or two years, after being cut from the skin, produces a better working, and a more solid article of felt, than fur from...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 22 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 22 ing the supposition that felting was invented prior to weaving. However, so far as we can learn, a real systematic method of felting is comparatively of a late date, and until...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 23 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 23 There was a time when beaver skins were bought from the natives, by the Hudson Bay Company, at the regular price of 14 skins for a gun, 7 for a pistol,...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 24 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 24 Cotswold wool, and some other inferior wools, do not measure more than nine spirals to the inch. The Fulling Mill. Having alluded to the fulling mill as a felting machine, it...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 25 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 25 and buffeting them about, till they become not only clean, but completely felted. All of our broadcloths have been subjected to its action, in the process of which the hairs of...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 26 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 26 covering from the hot sun of summer, the cold of win- ter, a defence from the blows of battle, or for fashion. Being the most conspicuous article of dress, and sur-...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 27 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 27 soon after became common in that country, whence probably it spread to the other European States. When Charles VII. of France made his triumph- ant entry into Rouen in 1440, he...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 28 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 28 The Fashions. A look at the fashions and mode of dressing in ancient times causes amusement. So capricious is the fancy of man that nothing is immutable, all is change, and...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 29 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 29 London is still recognized in England, and the 23d of November is the hatters annual festival, that being St. Clement s day, the patron of the trade. Preparation of Materials. Previous...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 30 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 30 while the fur in its original straight state could be used with satisfaction only as an outside flowing nap upon the hat. The method pursued to accomplish this result is, to...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 31 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 31 formed by hand, with knives about two inches long by four wide, having a short upright handle. The skins are held upon a cutting-board, and the pelt kept moistened with water;...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 32 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 32 hats with that material, which long continued the only article likely to succeed. Latterly, however, glue has become quite obsolete, having been entirely super- seded by the various gums and resins,...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 33 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 33 quality, and quantity of the stiff must be regulated according to the country in which the hats are to be worn. England, for instance, where there is so much moisture in...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 34 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 34 passed between a pair of rollers one by one, thereby sweeping off the superfluous compound, but leaving them completely saturated. The hats with this stif- fening must be immediately and rapidly...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 35 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 35 heated by steam, or it may be set into another vessel containing boiling water, and the shellac, thus, and mastic added. This is allowed to boil for some time, more warm...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 36 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 36 under the action of the blowing machine, which consists of a long, close, narrow, wooden box, divided into a number of apartments, the divisions between each of them having an open...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 37 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 37 viz., the making, and the finishing departments, each of which as a matter of course has its subdivisions. With the exception of encyclopaedias which give detached and very abridged descriptions of...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 38 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 38 tute carding for that of bowing, and various futile attempts with the irons in the finishing department. The innovations of machinery, however, have now obtained a sure footing in all large...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 39 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 39 great dexterity and with the nicest judgment. This operation has always been considered a beautiful sight Fig. 1. Hat Bow. to a stranger, as the performer goes on plucking the string,...- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868
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Image 40 of A treatise on hat-making and felting, including a full exposition of the singular ... 40 on the surface fibres, thereby interlacing the outside filaments, by which means the simply safe-lifting of Fig. 3. Tfffl Hat Basket. these two half-solidified portions of the future hat is secured....- Contributor: Thomson, John
- Date: 1868