This complete manual for hat manufacturers of all kinds is a French-language technical guide to the making of hats. It details the materials, tools, and processes of the hatter’s trade, addressing the production of felt, straw, and other headwear for the professional manufacturer.
A practical handbook in the encyclopedic French tradition, it preserves the working methods of the nineteenth-century hat industry. This work is in French. It will chiefly serve readers of the language and historians of the trade. The manual is offered here as a free EPUB download. Comprehensive and methodical, it captures the breadth of a trade that supplied an essential element of nineteenth-century dress.