Job Description:

• 1) Casts plaster hat-making patterns from sample hat and shapes patterns to specified form and dimensions, using hand knife: Melts and pours thin, even layer of wax over hat to stiffen it.

• 2) Presses hat into loose sand to create impression that duplicates dimensions and shape of hat.

• 3) Mixes plaster powder with water and pours it into sand impression to form pattern.

• 4) Lifts pattern from sand after it hardens.

• 5) Whittles, cuts, and scrapes plaster from pattern with hand knife to achieve specified form and dimensions, measuring and comparing pattern with hat, using rule and tape.