- Acid aids fulling, 21
- Alkali stiff, 33
- Analysis of hair, 12
- Ancient hats, 26
- Basket, hat, 40
- Battery for sizing, 41
- Bleaching of hair, 14
- Block for hats, 47
- Blocking, 47
- Blowing machine, 35
- Body making, 41
- Bowing, 39
- Bow-pin, 39
- Broadcloth, properties of, 19
- Cardinal's hats, 26
- Carroting, 29
- Cassimere hats, 48
- Chemical analysis of hair, 12
- Cloth hats, 63
- Coloring, 47
- Conclusion, 65
- Construction of hair, 16
- Cotton, why it does not felt, 17
- Description of furs, wools, hair, &c., 11
- Dressing, 56
- Dyeing, 47
- Dyes, 48
- Elizabeth, Queen, patent, 28
- Familiar proofs of felting, 17
- Fashions, 28
- Felting, 14
- familiar proofs of, 17
- inventor of, 27
- when invented, 22
- Felt made by Turcomans, 21
- Festival of hatters, 29
- Fine wool, introduction into the United States, 23
- Finishing, 49
- First account of hatters, 27
- Flowing nap, 43
- Forming, 56
- Fulling, 14
- acid aids, 21
- mill, 24
- oil prevents, 21
- process of, 25
- soap aids, 21
- Fur, kinds of, 20
- Furs, description of, 11
- how prepared, 29
- inferior articles employed with, 22
- low prices of in early times, 23
- Gaiters of felt, 60
- Glue, pelts used for, 31
- Goods, shrinking of, 15
- Gordian knot, 19
- Gossamer hats, 53
- Grease prevents fulling, 21<
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