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How to Make Hats -- An Illustrated Vintage Guide to Making Early 1930s Hats
by Rosalind Weiss

{softcover, 315 pages, 7.44x9.69, 2010, ISBN: 1936049392}

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Originally published in 1931, this book will show you how to make all of the popular flapper-style hats of the early 1930s including transparent, collapsible, straw, framed, hand blocked and draped hats. The author was an experienced milliner in Paris and New York and both taught and supervised millinery classes in New York City. She wrote this book as a millinery textbook for instructors to use to teach the fundamental principles of millinery including the techniques of assembly and finishing, line, color and proportion. She divided the book into what she references as "job sheets" with each "job" being a set of tasks to complete a phase in millinery teaching.   

Over 500 illustrations depict the hat making process in very specific, step-by-step detail. Ten units detail the following:

- Hand Blocked and Draped Felts and Straws with Draped Crinoline 
  Models (hand blocked felt crowns, felt brims, draped crinoline
  brims, draped felt or straw brims, felt or straw brims 
  stretched on patterns, straw crowns, straw brims, etc.)
- Finishing Processes (measuring, cutting and joining bias 
  strips, quarter-inch binding, circular ribbon flange, plain
  folds, milliner's folds, finished cord on a wire, etc.)
- Frame Making - Brims (hand-moulded brims, making brims with
  patterns, making brims freehanded, model frame brims, stretched
  brims, taking a pattern from a brim, etc.)
- Covering Brims (bias top facing, bias under facing, steamed
  double facing, fitted top facing, fitted under facing, etc.)

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