Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-02-23
HATTERS' PRINTING.
Names, Trade Marks and Designs
for Sweat feathers
some OF the Work II So Finely Done
Steel EnxrnvinHs Arr iced
All Mnis Are Marked in
Some Manner.

signs upon hat tips and sweat feathers
in hats. and upon the labels used on hat
boxes, is n business by itself. The hat
tip, or crown lining of 4 hat. is some
times made of paper. oftcnest OF satin.
In n silk hat and in some still hats the
tip covers the entire interior OF the
crown of the sweat leather; in straw
hats the tip is very often composed of
- broad strip OF satin upon 4 lace crown
lining. Many stir hats and most soft
hats are now finished without tips, in
which ease the Trademark or name is
printed on the sweat leather.
Tip printing is dore from brass dies.
and in the finest work from steel plates.
These dies and plates are mace in very
great variety. In a large establish
mert devoted 10 hatters' printing there
might be found 10000 dies and 10000
steel plates. Proof impressions Of this
great number OF dies and plates fill
many huge. ledCcr-like volumes, upon
whose pages they are secured rs in
scrapboCks. There are through the
country thousands Of retailing matters.
each having n separate die OF his own.
with which the tips OF the hats he sells
| are IGlllitA. SOIllt iaA .INtANAS
have many dies, including dies Of trade
marks and designs for special lines y!
goods. All thee dies and plates. how
ever varied and widely distributed their
ownership may be, are kept in the Is
tablishment of the printer. ready for
use on occasion. The owner pays for
the engraving of the first die. the cost
varying according TO its elaborateness;
il 4 die or plate becomes worn and a
new die is needed the printer supplies
il.
In large matters printing 10!
ments everything pertaining 10 the
business IS done, including the design
ing and engraving OF the dies and
plates. as well ms the printing from
them. Some designs, the trademarks
of old-rsiablished houses. become IA
miiiar from l~ong-continued use. A.
dies and plates wear out they are sim
Fly replaced. the design continuing the
same. On the other hand. every year.
for one reason and another. many de-
signs 60 out Of use, and finally the dies
and plates are destroyed; but every
wear there are produced for individual
dealers and for general trade purposes
thousands Of new designs. so that the
number OF dies and plates on hand nj
the printers is always great. These de-
signs. aside from those made for in
divida! hatters. include a Very great va
ric;y Of subjects. Thus. there might
be seen printed on hat ,iTs ships and
locomotives and horses and anvils and
many other things; and any name or
object of public interest IT the mo-
Elent. is likely to he reproduced inside
II hats. Almost every hat worn bears
within IL printing in some form. If the
hat has no tip il appears on the sv"cnf
leather. and II may also be in such q
hat upon what is called n srickcr. ;lis
being 4 piece Ct paper. cloth = i a'lrr.
in Outline of the exact sh=-r -uA -"
OF the die. Upon which are Ir:uted the
dealers trademark and ra:.c. the
Stickcr EoirE asted in the center of the
crown of the hat.
The retail hat dealer, wherever he
may be. il he desires o distinctive trade
mark oil name design TO appear in the
hats he sells, sends to some big hat
tcrs' printing establishment for IL de.
sign; he sends, perhaps, n suggestion
OF his own, or il may be TINT he relies
upon the designer Of the printing es-
tablishment. One or more designs are
made and submitted to him for approx
al. According as may be required. such
dealers might embody in some artistic
form simply the name and address,;
often such dies or plates are made in
designs appropriate to the region,
state or locality. Such dies and plates
are made in almost endless variety.
The plate would remain at the print
er's, and when the retailer ordered hints
of the jobbcr with whom he dealt the
jobber would have the tips and sweat
feathers with which the hats thus or
dered were finished printed from the
customers own dies.
Tips are printed In gold leaf, in sill.
yer leaf and in aluminium leaf. and in
ink in various colors; sometimes they
are printed in combinations of metals
with combinations Of colors. Most
commonly. however, they are printed
in n single metal or color. All sweat
feathers are printed in one or another
of the metals.
Box labels for hat boxes are made
both plain :"l embossed in q very great
variety = "jy!es, and these are printed
I'm vari. : to color. \ hat dealer
might l. - his own design complete
for box lab. rs well ms for hat tip; or
he may select one from among many
box labels that arc made with n blank
spnce to receive n die. and have his "
die inserted in the label.
Many hat tips printed from dies en-.
gravcd Here te'exported to Canada for
use In hats that are finished there: and
there are also made here suitable dies
from which are printed hat tips for hats
exported to South hmericn.-N. Y.
Sun.
In old Rome they made a wine OF vio.
lets, and today in Turkey shcrbct Is
made from these lovely blossoms.
Did you ever eat nasturtium salad
In Europe they make salads from prim.
roses, too, and marigolds are used for
soups.
Candied yiolets have always had q
large sale. In France all the stale VIC.
lets arc sold to coniectioncrs, who
steam them, dip in boiled sugar and
sell them at a high price. That Is why
sometimes when one cats candicd yio.
lets they have a woody taste-they arc