A Treatise on Hat-making and Felting: Including a Full Exposition of the Singular Properties of Fur, Wool, and Hair |
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... beaver , the otter , the rabbit , the hare , a species of the muskrat , a species of the monkey , a species of the seal , and a few others , together with Saxony and Spanish wools and the hair of camels and goats . Numerous as are these ...
... beaver , the otter , the rabbit , the hare , a species of the muskrat , a species of the monkey , a species of the seal , and a few others , together with Saxony and Spanish wools and the hair of camels and goats . Numerous as are these ...
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... outside . Even under the most perfect manipulation , a mixture of cotton , from its want of elasticity , will give a product which is to a correspond- ing degree deteriorated . There was a time when beaver skins were bought from 22.
... outside . Even under the most perfect manipulation , a mixture of cotton , from its want of elasticity , will give a product which is to a correspond- ing degree deteriorated . There was a time when beaver skins were bought from 22.
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... beaver skins were bought from the natives , by the Hudson Bay Company , at the regular price of 14 skins for a gun , 7 for a pistol , 2 for a shirt or one pair of stockings , 1 for a comb , or twelve needles , & c . & c . , less than ...
... beaver skins were bought from the natives , by the Hudson Bay Company , at the regular price of 14 skins for a gun , 7 for a pistol , 2 for a shirt or one pair of stockings , 1 for a comb , or twelve needles , & c . & c . , less than ...
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... beaver for a nap , those bodies must all undergo the operation of shaving . A workman sits in another apartment with one of them , when dry , spread over his knee , and with a long bladed sharp knife in hand , sweeps rapidly over the ...
... beaver for a nap , those bodies must all undergo the operation of shaving . A workman sits in another apartment with one of them , when dry , spread over his knee , and with a long bladed sharp knife in hand , sweeps rapidly over the ...
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... beaver , otter , neutra , or other fine fur is desired , finer than that of which the body is made , half an ounce more or less of the superior uncarroted stuff is weighed out , sufficient to cover the whole out- side surface of the hat ...
... beaver , otter , neutra , or other fine fur is desired , finer than that of which the body is made , half an ounce more or less of the superior uncarroted stuff is weighed out , sufficient to cover the whole out- side surface of the hat ...
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acid American animal applied Art of Dyeing beaver block Boilers boiling brim brush C. E. Illustrated cemented CHARLES O'NEILL Chemist Chemistry cloth color Comprising cone Containing copal cotton cover crown Description dissolved DUSSAUCE Dyeing edge edition emery paper felting operation fibre filaments finishing flowing nap folded French fulling mill fur body GUIDE gutta-percha gum hand hat-making hatter HENRY CAREY hot iron inch invented JAMES NAPIER laid machine machinery Manufacture material MECHANICAL Metallurgy Metals method motion Mulhausen NAPIER OLIVER BYRNE paper pelt piece plank kettle plates Pouncing PRACTICAL TREATISE prepared Professor H proper pulled Pumicing quantity Receipts Royal Naval College rubbing sandarac Saxony seam sheet shellac shoe side side-crown skin smooth Soap soft solid steam Steel stiff stiffening stuff thickness tion Translated various varnish veluring volume water-proofing WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN wood engravings wool workman ZERAH COLBURN
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