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Tuesday, 11 September, 2012
Turning straw into headgear
For almost 200 years, the village of Wohlen in the canton of Aargau was one of the centers of the European hat-making industry. Thousands of jobs were generated in the straw industry and the village was known as “Little Paris.” Today, only a handful of hat makers ply the trade and the rich industrial past is kept alive in the local museum. WRS’s Vincent Landon reports:
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