Hat block


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a block on which hats are formed or dressed.

See also: Hat

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Notice that each cat, bat and hat block use the same black fabric throughout construction.
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"They say he drew out nails to make hat pins for his mother and also carved a hat block that is on display here," said Ms.
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'The shop-owner knew I was an engineer and designer and she asked me if I could make her a hat block, the wooden mould on which any new hat is created,' Guy explains.
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The redesign minimized the use of closed office spaces hat block or are blocked from natural light.
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Marie-Claire designed the wooden "hat blocks" herself "and they were handmade by local woodcarver John McAuley using local species of wood.
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The heads formed from hat blocks as well as the encrusted blue gown worn by the Virgin Mary in The.
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The exhibition mixed his own collection with pieces belonging to Tate, including photographs of Greta Garbo by CS Bull that he found in a Los Angeles antique store and a row of his sculptural wooden hat blocks.
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A long row of his hat blocks is displayed in the centre of the gallery - like a menagerie of strange sea creatures washed up on the shore.
I'm always nice but people expect me to be a monster; Hat designer to the stars, Philip Treacy, talks Laura Davis through his exhibition at Tate Liverpool
WHILE buying up supplies for her new hat shop, designer Marie Flanagan came across a collection of hat blocks and trimmings from the workshop of royal milliner Philip Somerville.
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Meanwhile, a designer who makes wooden hat blocks has been awarded an MBE for services to the millinery industry.
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There are about 20 of them--different types, but all eye-catching--ranged about the stage on hat blocks, plus more that come out of sample cases.
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