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An old engraving showing men working at a hatmaker’s battery used in the production of felt hats. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The battery is a boiler or kettle containing hot water, plus a small quantity of sulphuric acid. The acid aids the fur to ‘felt’ more easily when it adheres to the conical hat bodies. A ‘nap’ is the raised (fuzzy) surface on cloths such as velvet or moleskin, or the surface of felt or beaver pelt. The workers aid this napping process by rubbing with their wooden tools called ‘gloves’.

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An old engraving showing men working at a hatmaker’s battery used in the production of felt hats. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The battery is a boiler or kettle containing hot water, plus a small quantity of sulphuric acid. The acid aids the fur to ‘felt’ more easily when it adheres to the conical hat bodies. A ‘nap’ is the raised (fuzzy) surface on cloths such as velvet or moleskin, or the surface of felt or beaver pelt. The workers aid this napping process by rubbing with their wooden tools called ‘gloves’.

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Photographe : M&N

Date

13 nov. 2020

Crédit

Photo12/Alamy/M&N

Notre référence

LMY25T02_2DANT06

Utilisation

uniquement en France

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

27,7Mo (2,2Mo) / 26,0cm x 26,7cm / 3071 x 3156 (300dpi)

Mots clés

1800s 19th battery black and white boiler cap century cloth design early engineering engraving factory felt felting fur furnace glove gloves glue hat hats historical history hundreds illustration industrial industry kettle machine maker making male mechanical men milliner millinery moleskin nap nineteenth old pelt production revolution tool victorian wooden work workers