Making a Pressman's Hat - video

[Dave Hughes]

This is an excerpt from a much longer video made on the 30th November 1992 to commemorate the last day of the Oakland Tribune.

The video was over an hour long and shot in poor lighting conditions.

The first clip just shows the hat making, the second is the full hour.

Making a Pressman's Hat

Last day of the Oakland Tribune (1992)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCiJZQ3Jf0k&t=2242s

[Mechanic]

I made one of my great grandchildren wearing one as a New Year card a number of years ago. Now for safety reasons they wear ear protection and hard hats, when they need to enter press room. Mostly now large presses are operated from a quiet room.

[printsmurf]

Part of an article from the News-Journal Paper of Wilmington  (1968)



Paper makers wearing 'printer's hats' although they would have probably called them 'paper-maker's hats'

This painting, said to be from 1810, is of Marchant Warrell, who was the first 'paper-machine man' (a man in charge of a paper-making machine) and worked for the Fourdrinier brothers at Two Waters Mill in Derbyshire, wearing a Workman's Hat.



This woodprint of a papermaker is taken from 'Artificiana A Guide to the Principal Trades' which was published by Oliver and Boyd in Edinburgh, 1820.



Another papermaker wearing a Workman's Hat  1821.



 From the 'Complete Book of Trades' by Whittock, Bennett and Badcock et al, which was published by Thomas Tegg in London in 1842.



Papermill workers at Withnell Fold, 1875



Papermill workers at Tuckenhay, 1881



Papermill workers at Rivelin, 1890

[Mechanic]

Even Gutenberg wore one. This is an actual photo of him wearing one, when demonstrating his method of printing to potential backers.

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From 'Illustrations of Useful Arts, Manufactures and Trades' dated 1858        Bookbinder

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Painting from 1876 by Enoch Wood Perry - 'Young Franklin at the Press'   

Benjamin Franklin wearing a printer's hat.

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Printers wearing printer's hats

From the 'Complete Book of Trades' by Whittock, Bennett and Badcock et al, which was published by Thomas Tegg in London in 1842.



From 'Illustrations of Useful Arts, Manufactures and Trades' dated 1858