hatmaking
Shaping felt caps
Hatmaking is the craft or business of making hats.
The term covers everything from industrial cap production to artisanal millinery.
Someone who makes hats professionally is a hatter or milliner—the latter traditionally specializing in women's hats.
She learned hatmaking from her grandmother, who had worked in a millinery shop.
Compressed fiber textile
- strawTube for sipping
- blockSolid mass, or impede
- brimProjecting edge or lip
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
trimming · buckram · sweatband · lining · stiffener · band · feathers · veil
Impeding forward progress
- shapingGiving something its form
- steamingReleasing hot vapor
- feltingCompacting fibers through agitation
- stitchingJoining with needle, thread
patternmaking · sewing · dyeing · finishing · stretching · molding · cutting · pinning
Habitual group practice
- made-to-measureCustom-crafted to specifications
- handcraftedMade manually, not machined
- one-of-a-kindHaving no equivalent
- fittedShaped to conform
personalized · exclusive · commission · consultation · client · measurements · fittings · individual
Custom passed through generations
- vintageQuality from past eras
- antiqueOld valued collectible
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- museumPublic exhibit space
restoration · preservation · history · guild · apprenticeship · master · Victorian · Edwardian
felt
Compressed fiber textile
crown · trimming · buckram · sweatband · lining · stiffener · band · feathers · veil · plume
fedora
Soft creased felt hat
panama · turban · bonnet · cap · bowler · pillbox · boater · toque · homburg · derby
blocking
Impeding forward progress
- shapingGiving something its form
- steamingReleasing hot vapor
- feltingCompacting fibers through agitation
stitching · patternmaking · sewing · dyeing · finishing · stretching · molding · cutting · pinning · draping
custom
Habitual group practice
- made-to-measureCustom-crafted to specifications
- handcraftedMade manually, not machined
- one-of-a-kindHaving no equivalent
fitted · personalized · exclusive · commission · consultation · client · measurements · fittings · individual · tailored
tradition
Custom passed through generations
museum · restoration · preservation · history · guild · apprenticeship · master · Victorian · Edwardian · legacy
- old industriesblacksmithing, ironworks, sawmills, gristmills, tanneries
- craftssewing, knitting, painting, glue, scissors
- hatsfedora, beanie, baseball cap, beret, visor
hatmakingcobbling
Fixing or making shoes
shoemaking · bootmaking · tailoring · hosiery · dressmaking
hat, making, headgear, hatter, chapeau, millinery, hatters, milliner, haberdasher