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How to Make Fabric Hats -- A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Vintage Hats
by Marianne Townsend Taylor

{softcover, 64 pages, 7.5x9.25, 2009, ISBN: 1936049112}

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Originally published in 1953, this book teaches the fundamentals of hat construction. You'll learn the techniques of covering buckram or frames for the following types of hats:

- sailor
- pillbox
- calotte
- bonnet
- breton
- stitched hat

After learning to measure for correct hat size, making the hat lining, pinning the fabric, sewing linings and fabrics, etc., you'll take your basic techniques learned and apply them toward making hats with more difficult shapes including:

- peaked crown
- draped brim
- dutch cap
- partial brim
- side interest
- roll brim sailor
- cut-away breton
- coolie shape
- profile bonnet

Over 200 illustrations accompany the detailed, step-by-step text. Techniques learned can be used for new hats or for recovering old hats.