The Forming Machine: How the manufacturing of hats went from 6 to 600 per day

  Excerpted from The  Chronicle Volume 51, No 2, June 1998 by Debbie Henderson, Ph.D. The felting process is thousands of years old. Felt has been used for shel­ters, blankets, shoes, and fab­ric for all manner of clothing. In the case of men’s hats, felt in the shape of a cone was the beginning of …

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