Hatter

The hatter of city exerts his trade in a Chapellerie. It sells (Chapeaux), accessories of head… He advises the customers at the time of the purchase of an article by taking account of the requirements of the customer, his aspect, his silhouette, the circumstances of the purchase or the tendencies of the mode. Its work of workshop consists to put at the size, to match and furnish the hats, to refresh and repair.

The hatter manufacturer produces hats in series: on the wood shapes (work with the plate), with the press on the aluminum shapes (work with the pedal), by assembling braids on machines chain, by assembling fabric parts on piqueuses punts.

According to its statute in the company, it can ensure the management of the business or frame one or more Salarié S.

History

The trade of hatter was divided with the Middle Ages into several branches. There were the hatters “of flowers”, the cotton hatters “”, the hatters “of peacock”, the “makers of hats of orfrois”, and finally the hatters “of felt”, who ended up replacing all the other hatters.

In the top Moyen-âge, the hat term as well meant metal crown or flowers that true cover-chief, and the use of the hat-crown seems to go up extremely far: some authors allotted the invention of it to the Gallic one. Without anything to affirm in this respect, let us say only that the fashion persisted about it very a long time with the Middle Ages: as the very long hair was carried, it was necessary to retain them and prevent them from falling on the eyes. With each page of the literature of the Middle Ages we meet the “chapel flowers”; the ladies of the novels and the chansons de geste spend their time braiding some…

The Hats of flowers were later replaced in the rich class by decorated circles of Orfèvrerie invaluable pearls. However the “chapel of flowers” remained as feudal royalty, and was regarded as a mark of honor and respect. At the end of the fifteenth century, the ladies of Naples offered to Charles VIII, with his entry in their city, a crown of violets.

The hats of peacock and orfrois were worn only by the women. Undoubtedly the feathers of peacock were then more expensive than they are it today, although the noble bird was often reproduced on the table of the large lords. At all events, it was an ornament reserved for the great ladies, which made use of it to decorate the complicated hairstyles of which they were affublèrent with the fourteenth century and especially at the fifteenth century.

As for the cotton hatters, they to tell the truth did not sell hats, but bonnets and gloves of wool.

The first statutes of the felt hatters and those of a corporation which was so to speak only one dependence of their trade, that of the furriers of hats, go back with Paris to Etienne Boileau, i.e. end of the reign of holy Louis; they were several times modified or confirmed, in particular in 1324,1325,1367 and 1381.

According to the oldest statutes, the Master hatter could have one apprentice. The training lasted seven years for those which were neither wire nor parents of Master; it was free, if the Master agreed to it; but in all the cases it was necessary to pour ten pennies with the case of the brotherhood.

Two Prud'hommes named by the provost of Paris were charged to take care of the execution of the payments, which, of the remainder, were neither very numerous, nor very complicated. Defense to insert in the clothes industry of the different felt thing that Hair of lamb; defense to sell of old hats reteints, to open shop Sunday, and to work before the day: such were the political tendencies of the statutes.

Internal bonds

External bond

  • the Hatter, the Hosier

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