How to Make and Trim Your Own Hats -- A Vintage ..
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How to Make and Trim Your Own Hats -- A Vintage Instruction Guide for Making 1940s Hats
by Vee Walker Powell
{softcover, 92 pages, 7x10, 2007, ISBN: 1934268631}
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Originally published in 1944, this vintage millinery book contains instructions and patterns for cutting, pinning, sewing and putting together calots, straw hats, sailors, half hats, pillboxes, off-the-face brims, jocket hats, snoods, dutch bonnets, knitted and crocheted hats. Also included are instructions for making an over-arm bag, crocheted over-the-shoulder bag and collar box. This book is filled with trimming ideas using flowers, veilings, hat pins, ribbons, beads, embroidery and sequins. The contents include:
- Style Element in Millinery -- How to develop a sense of style
and design; hat lines; headsize and nonheadsize hats; eye
lines; the hat block.
- Basic Millinery Supplies -- How to use buckram, crinoline,
wire, glue, millinery needles and thread, starched chiffon,
sizing, hat blocks, millinery equipment; how to steam press.
- Millinery Materials -- Classification of materials: felt, fur,
wool, cotton felts, straw; how to choose the material; how to
make a dutch bonnet for mother and daughter; small, medium,
large headsizes; sequins and embroidery.
- Wool-Felt Bags -- Instructions, patterns and diagrams for
overarm pouch bag, collar box and other pouch bags.
- Professional Details of Millinery -- When to use and how to cut
bias material; how to combine materials; how to wire straw and
felt brims; how to make a lining; how to sew in a headsize
ribbon; how to block a hat; how to shrink to size; fancy blocks
made from spools and boxes; how to make down-brim blocks;
blocking the brim; how to cut brim from crown; off-the-face
brim; suggestions for trimming brimmed hats.
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- Half-Hats -- How to make foundations for half-hats; how to make
ear-muff, dutch half-bound, curvette hats; how to trim half-
hats.
- Trimmings -- How to make and use jersey, braided, grosgrain
bandeaus; how to make and use tubing; how to sew on flowers and
veiling; the tie tack method; ruffle and chin veils, veils for
pillbox and bumper brims; how to combine flowers and veiling;
how to use maline; maline cocktail hat; ideas for a bridesmaid
hat; how to make covered hatpins; tricks with hatpins; how to
change a hat by changing trimming; how to make felt applique,
flower and leaf design; "french room" trim; taffeta satin, felt
bows; using inexpensive material; built-up foundations; how to
make your own snood of velvet, veiling or flowers; fur and
straw hats; how to make a hat out of ribbon and flowers.
- How to Remake and Renovate -- What to do with old ornaments,
fur felts, wool felts; how to reblock felt, frame, and material
hats; how to reuse trims, clean hats; how to remake felts and
straws; complete remake chart; how to make seven "old" hats
into smart new styles; step-by-step instructions; sizing straw
hats; remaking covered frames; business possibilities.
- How to Make Hat Foundations -- Complete instructions and
diagrams for six section crown, all-in-one crown; chart showing
remake possibilities; "how to change" chart; foundations No. 1
and No. 2.
- Ready-Made Frames -- How to use ready-made frames; how to cut
patterns from a frame brim; how to cover frames, flat crowns,
round crowns; how to make a cover band; "do's and don'ts".
- Frames -- And How to Make Your Own -- Instructions for making
and covering; how to make pillbox and visor hats; hats that
become you - common sense in choosing your hat; novel cut-out
crowns and side trims.