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2. Hat block - Wikipedia

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   A hat block, also known as a hat form or bashing block, is a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman known as a block shaper. It is used by hat makers and milliners [1] to produce a hat. Today there are only a handful of block shapers left. In the United Kingdom, hat block making has been listed as an endangered craft by the ...

3. Wood scraper block - Wikipedia

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   Wood scraper block. A wood scraper block, also known as wooden agogo or tone wood block, is an idiophone percussion instrument. It consists, usually, in a pair of small tubes made of wood, each one of different size, producing different tones. These tubes are played with a stick and have a ribbed surface to double as scraper.

4. Top hat - Wikipedia

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   A town-weight silk top hat is made by first blocking two pieces of gossamer (or goss for short), which is made of a sheet of cheesecloth that has been coated with a shellac and ammonia solution and left to cure for 5 months on a wooden frame, on a wooden top hat block (which is made of several interconnecting pieces like a puzzle so the block ...

5. Block - Wikipedia

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   Block party (also known as street party), a community social event; Block scheduling, a type of academic scheduling; Hat block, or block shaper, a wooden block carved into the shape of a hat by a craftsman; Postage stamp block, an attached group of postage stamps

6. Woodblock printing - Wikipedia

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   Jia xie is a method for dyeing textiles (usually silk) using wood blocks invented in the 5th–6th centuries in China. An upper and a lower block are made, with carved out compartments opening to the back, fitted with plugs. The cloth, usually folded a number of times, is inserted and clamped between the two blocks.

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