Recent content by TWKundrat

It would be interesting to try on a small scale to see if there's much of a noticeable difference.

Very interesting stuff. Have you personally done some testing of this process or what led you to propose this method?

Anyone have any good photos of hatter's bows used for making felt in the pre industrial era? Here's some that I found that are apparently at the Mercer museum in Pennsylvania.

Found my little paperback version on eBay some time back. Not sure why it turned the picture sideways.

Well that's a damn shame. Wish I could have seen it when it was up and running. I asked if I could get a tour there when I was at the finishing plant but I was told they wouldn't do tours there. I wonder what will happen to all of the equipment.

I know that 100 percent polyester is awful to work with. I'm curious if there's enough cotton content in this stuff to make it usable. The price is tempting enough that I might give it a shot.

Has anyone tried this cotton/polyester blend grosgrain from AgnoulitaHats on Etsy? I'm sure it's not as good as the old cotton/rayon stuff but I'm wondering if it's workable https://www.etsy.com/listing/684381277/hat-making-grosgrain-ribbon-cotton

I'm curious if you ever heard anything back about this?

The green hat sold but the others are still available.

I'll admit that I'm a bit sleep deprived but I swear I saw a comment on Facebook yesterday about Hatco closing their rough body plant in Longview and that they are now using imported felts. I can't find the post today so I'm wondering if there's any truth to this or if it was all a hallucination?

Here's another video I found with some good footage of fur processing.

These were posted in another thread but I thought I'd add them here as well.

This is great stuff. Do you mind if I copy it over to this thread as well? Thread 'Fur felt production' https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/fur-felt-production.116313/ Trying to get a lot of this fur felt production stuff all in one place for future reference.