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Hat manufacturing

For further information please visit hats-history.com, a website about the history and the tradition of hat making.


Wooden hat stretcher	Moulding tool (from Manuale del Cappellaio Hoeply 1906)	1950s Borsalino cleaning brush

Arts of Bologna illustrated by Annibale Carracci and engraved by Simone Giulini, 18th century	Front page of Manuale del Cappellaio, Milan, Hoepli 1906	Advertising card, Matta Puleo Cappellificio in Palermo (Sicily)

Hat stretcher	Shaping tool to produce made to measure hats	Fulling mill from the 1906 Manuale del Cappellaio

Press from the Manuale del Cappellaio	Antique tools for hat maintenance	Cloche fur cutter