The picture is of hats drying outside a factory in Southern China. The hats have been dipped into a fixative to make them stiff. The fixative is water with a hand full of plastic like pellets dissolved in.
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Below is your author on a shopping visit to a factory making the braid used in hats. The raw material starts with these huge rolls of tissue paper, if you can believe it!
Your Author with Raw Material for Hats
