{"id":116,"date":"2007-11-26T00:16:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuki.deprada.net\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-11-28T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T15:56:48","slug":"making-a-brim-block-out-of-cork-blocking-the-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Making a brim block out of cork – Blocking the hat!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seemed like the day would never come, but finally I have dared to block the felt on my wonderful new blocks.<\/p>\n

Still too lazy to dig up my jiffy steamer from under a pile of boxes I have popped the water sprayed felt, wrapped in a wet towel, into my microwave.<\/p>\n

This is the fur felt capeline I have used, bought at the German supplier KOPKA<\/a>, it’s a special capeline for man’s hats. It’s special because because it’s thicker felt and heavily sized.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Man's<\/a><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here are some pictures of the process:<\/p>\n

\"ready<\/a>\u00a0\"felt<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, crazy enough to nuke the brim after the crown was blocked (no pins in there, just string!), also a picture of the plastic bags I’ve used to protect the block:<\/p>\n

\"Crown<\/a>\u00a0\"Plastic<\/a><\/p>\n

And here the blocked brim. You can understand now what I meant before when I said that the brim block goes upside down. The block is in the oven for drying (I have an air oven and it’s set at 50\u00baC). I did put my marble dust bag on top and some weights on top of that to keep the top crease in place, but I had removed them when I took the picture so that it would dry:<\/p>\n

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\"Blocked<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here are some pictures of the blocked brim:<\/p>\n

\"Blocked<\/a>\u00a0 \"Underside<\/a><\/p>\n

I might still get a decent hat out of this… who knows!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Blocked<\/div>\n

<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tomorrow the unveiling\/unblocking… I hope to have time to post about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seemed like the day would never come, but finally I have dared to block the felt on my wonderful new blocks. Still too lazy to dig up my jiffy steamer from under a pile of boxes I have popped the water sprayed felt, wrapped in a wet towel, into my microwave. This is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homburg-for-peter","category-making-a-cork-block","category-millinery-projects","category-millinery-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.deprada.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}