• 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
  • uses of, 22
• Festival of hatters, 29
• Fine wool, introduction into the United States, 23
• Finishing, 49
• First account of hatters, 27
• Flowing nap, 43
• Forming, 56
  • machines, 57-59
• Fulling, 14
  • acid aids, 21
  • mill, 24
  • oil prevents, 21
  • process of, 25
  • soap aids, 21
• Fur, kinds of, 20
  • qualities of, 14
• 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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