SCHECHINGER HAT

As an enthusiastic wearer of hats and with a great passion for hats and their traditional production, I undertook my journey. The aim was to learn more about manufacturing techniques. I was fascinated by this almost lost craftsmanship... I met hatmakers, visited hat manufacturers and hat museums, and learned as much as I could about the traditional hatmaker's craft: over a 125 year old technique that enabled the creation of hats to the best possible quality. A hatmaker from the USA gave me a book from 1919 about SCIENTIFIC HAT MAKING & RENOVATION. This reading formed the basis of my knowledge for the manufacturing process, the materials and the tools used at the time. Extensive research on the WorldWideWeb supplemented the knowledge from the last century.