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  • Shaping a steamed straw hat body over a block.
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  • Stretching a just-steamed felt hat body over a wooden block to shape the crown and brim. Many of the block are old, and difficult to replace.
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  • A cord called a rope is cinched around the joint of the crown and brim, and is forced into place with a wooden runner, a tool with a groove cut in its end to fit over the rope and to force it in place.
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  • Jamestown, RI - 7 May 2007. Andrea Colognese, baker and co-owner of The Village Hearth Bakery and Cafe, shaping bread.
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  • Jamestown, RI - 7 May 2007. Andrea Colognese, baker and co-owner of The Village Hearth Bakery and Cafe, shaping bread.
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  • Jamestown, RI - 7 May 2007. Andrea Colognese, baker and co-owner of The Village Hearth Bakery and Cafe, shaping bread.
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  • Jamestown, RI - 7 May 2007. Andrea Colognese, baker and co-owner of The Village Hearth Bakery and Cafe, shaping bread.
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  • Jamestown, RI - 7 May 2007. Andrea Colognese, baker and co-owner of The Village Hearth Bakery and Cafe, shaping bread.
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  • Shaping the crease on the crown of a straw fedora. Once the shape has been established, a wooden block called a tipper will be tied in place to hold the crease.
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  • A hat body, shaped with only a suggestion of a crown and brim, on a rack over a steam generator, being steamed prior to shaping.
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  • Brushing a felt hat after being shaped and roped, to remove any marks left by shaping.
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  • Jamestown, RI - 7 May 2007. Andrea Colognese, baker and co-owner of The Village Hearth Bakery and Cafe, shaping bread.
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  • After shaping, the damp hat is placed in an oven to dry.
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  • Jamestown, RI - 7 May 2007. Andrea Colognese, baker and co-owner of The Village Hearth Bakery and Cafe, shaping baguettes with his assistance.
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  • Cords called ropes, with slipknots pre-tied and ready to be used for shaping hang in front of a steam rack with a straw hat body on it.
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  • A partially-shaped felt hat over the steam generator, being re-steamed for further shaping.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man with a large headdress in the shape of an eagle at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • A straw hat on a block after steaming, with a tipper block pressing the center crease in place. On the left is a rack over a steam generator; hanging from the hat block are cords used to form the fold between the crown and the brim, as well as to shape the edge of the brim.
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  • New York, NY - 31 October 2016. A couple dressed as scarecrows with pumpkin heads carry a Halloween treat bucket in the shape of a pumpkin with a mask of Donald Trump on the front, and lettered "Jerk o' [lantern]"
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 17 April 2016. A man holds a large painted sign in the shape of a blue map of the state of New York, with a large red heart superimposed on it, and the word "Berie." Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who is running as a Democrat in the U.S. Presidential primary elections, held a campaign "get out the  vote" rally in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
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  • Lights form the shape of a cross in Samuel Beckett's "All That Fall", directed by Gavin Quinn, at BAM's Fishman Space.
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  • Sewing the edge of the brim of a straw hat. The edge is rolled over a thick monofilament line to help it keep its shape.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A man smokes an orange cigar in the shape of a carrot, complete with greens, at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue. In his jacket pocket, in lieu of a pocket square, are two carrots.
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  • Rick Martin putting a mandrel into a vise. The mandrel is used to shape the band of the crown.
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  • Finger planes for sale. These small brass-bodied planes are used to shape small and curved surfaces.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten on a drumitar, a keyed drum synthesizer shaped like a guitar.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flectones' percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten playing a drumitar, a drum synthesizer, a keyed drum synthesizer shaped like a guitar.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten on drums and a drumitar, a drum synthesizer, a keyed drum synthesizer shaped like a guitar.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten on a drumitar, a keyed drum synthesizer shaped like a guitar.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten on drums and a drumitar, a keyed drum synthesizer shaped like a guitar.
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  • 3 August 2017 – Brooklyn, NY. Singer Nellie McKay opened for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a large crowd at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The Flecktones' percussionist Roy "Future Man" Wooten on drums and a drumitar, a keyed drum synthesizer shaped like a guitar.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A man wears a tall yellow hat shaped like a cylindrical bird apartment house with colored eggs at the entrances  in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival. Behind him is a Nathan's hot dog cart with the sign reading "This is the original since 1916."
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 11 December 2019. A performance of In Many Hands in BAM's Fishman Space, by Kate McIntosh in collaboration with Arantxa Martinez and Josh Rutter; sound design by John Avery; lighting design by Joëlle Reyms. The piece involves participants sitting at 3 long, narrow tables, with facilitators at each end, and either passing along objects—here rocks of varying shapes and sizes—or repeating hand movements in the manner set by a facilitator.
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  • A wooden block made up of brim and crown sections ready for a hat to be shaped over it into a fedora. In the background, a straw hat body is being steamed.
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  • A felt hat on a mold with cords called ropes holding the shapes of the crown and brim.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A woman with a hat shaped like a giant slice of orange fruit at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • Pressing a cord into place with a runner to form the joint between the crown and brim of a straw hat.
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