id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 47090 Thomson, John, hatter A Treatise on Hat-Making and Felting Including a Full Exposition of the Singular Properties of Fur, Wool, and Hair .txt text/plain 17354 591 63 Hair, wool, fur, and animal down are simply slender filaments or Hair, wool, fur, &c., form quite an extraneous appendage to the skin, depends the whole art of hatting and of felt making, whether in sheets of animal hair, wool, fur, &c., are thin pointed lamina, quite similar in the regular hand process of loose wool or fur felting. a firm piece of cloth (for such is the body of a hat) is manufactured fibres of the beaver fur penetrate the body of the hat, and having once The fur body of a silk hat, called a shell previous to coming into In finishing, whether the hat body be of fur or gossamer, the first Forming Machine for Fur Hat Bodies.] got the fur for one hat-body, the workman wraps over it a wet cloth and Forming Machine for Wool Hat Bodies.] Another method of making these cloth hats is to dispense with the fur ./cache/47090.txt ./txt/47090.txt