In the decade preceding the War, vans were still making regular trips through New England and the Middle States, leaving at farmhouses bundles of straw plait, which the members of the household fashioned into hats.
在战前的十年里， 货车仍然定期穿越新英格兰和中部各州， 在农舍留下成捆的草编辫子， 家庭成员将它们编成帽子。
![A traditional Ukrainian straw hat.](/Images/godic/202502/13/Український_бриль2557.JPG")
![A Heinrich Grossmann machine. It is a twisted chain stitch sewing machine adapted from a Wilcox & Gibbs machine for making straw hats from plaited straw (C1880).](/Images/godic/202502/13/Wghat12557.jpg")