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Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. [1] A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter . Historically, milliners made and sold a range of accessories for clothing and hairstyles. [ 2 ]
The 27,000-to-30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf may depict a woman wearing a woven hat.. While there are not many official records of hats before 3,000 BC, they probably were commonplace before that.
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John Batterson Stetson (May 5, 1830 – February 18, 1906) was an American hat maker who invented the cowboy hat in the 1860s. He founded the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1865, and it became one of the largest hat manufacturers in the world.
By 1886, Stetson's hat company was the largest globally and had mechanized the hat-making industry ("producing close to 2 million hats a year by 1906"). [2] The Stetson Hat Co. ceased production in 1968 and licensed another hat company. [2] However, these hats still bear the Stetson name, with the hats produced in St. Joseph, Missouri.
A selection of hat blocks. A hat block, also known as a hat form or bashing block, is a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman known as a block shaper.It is used by hat makers and milliners [1] to produce a hat.
The current proprietor Philip Wright is the fourth generation of his family to manufacture hats at the original site. After serving his apprenticeship Philip went on to study at the London College of Fashion which gave Walter Wright's traditional designs a new lease of life.
Hatmaking was established in north Cheshire and south-east Lancashire by the 16th century. In the early 19th century the number of hatters in the area began to increase, and a reputation for quality work was created.