{"id":94,"date":"2016-07-07T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brentblack.com\/cart\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2016-07-13T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T21:30:12","slug":"tour-bleaching-straw-for-panama-hats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/hat-lore-overview\/tour-how-a-panama-hat-is-made\/tour-bleaching-straw-for-panama-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleaching Straw for Panama Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"tour_05_01_straw5\"Waiting for straw to dry is not an especially exciting\u00a0spectator sport. Not even in a tiny village in rural Ecuador with no cable TV\u00a0<\/span>service.<\/span><\/p>\n

On that particular day, the straw dried in exactly as much time as it takes\u00a0a thirsty man to drink two bottles of Pilsener and swap some\u00a0stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLet it lie. Just let it lie,\u201d I told myself.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When the straw is dry, Sim\u00f3n takes it around back and\u00a0arranges the tallos on shelves inside a wood bleaching box he\u00a0built.<\/p>\n

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Sim\u00f3n arranges the straw in the box to his satisfaction\u00a0(left), then pulls a cover over the box to close and seal it as best he can.\u00a0(below)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Young Inspector looks on to make certain Sim\u00f3n does\u00a0it properly.<\/p>\n

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When the box has been closed up,\u00a0Sim\u00f3n puts crumbled sulfur into a ceramic bowl. (below)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then he puts burning embers onto\u00a0the sulfur and slides it all under the box. (below)<\/p>\n

The coals will burn the sulfur. The sulfur smoke\u00a0will fill the closed box and bleach the straw.<\/p>\n

The straw will be left inside the box over\u00a0night.<\/p>\n

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\"tour_05_13_IMG_3885\"Next, see how a hat is born.<\/p>\n

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Waiting for straw to dry is not an especially exciting\u00a0spectator sport. Not even in a tiny village in rural Ecuador with no cable TV\u00a0service. On that particular day, the straw dried in exactly as much time as it takes\u00a0a thirsty man to drink two bottles of Pilsener and swap some\u00a0stories.   When the straw is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":999,"parent":86,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tour-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/3573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}