How to Make Hats and Accessories -- Instructions for Making 1940s Fashions
by Vee Walker Powell

{softcover, 143 pages, 6.69x9.61, 2009, ISBN: 1934268941}

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Originally published in 1946, this book by Vee Powell shows you how to make fantastic vintage accessories including hats, gloves, hand bags, belts, muff, muff-purse, and parka hood. Chapters detail:

HATS

- equipment and basic materials.
- making a hat wedge, decorative tubing trim, hat linings,
  covered hat pins, sequined hat pins, bows, felt trims, felt 
  feathers and French-room trims.
- how to sew on flowers, veils and sequins.
- makings hats using hat patterns including a bonnet-type hat, 
  forward worn hat, forward-or-back worn hat with recomendations
  on which pattern pieces to use for each hat type.
- step-by-step instructions and illustrations for making a fabric
  hat including cutting, wiring and assembling frame, sewing top
  crown and side crown, cutting materials and seam allowances,
  covering crowns and brims, assembling brim and crown, and
  trimming/finishing. 
- making a hat from straw braid including pinning and sewing the
  braid, circling the hat with braid and properly laying the
  braid.
- making hats from wool felt including cutting out, sewing brims
  together and adding wire.
- making hats using fur felts including pinning pattern in place, 
  cutting out and assembling the pieces.
- five sample hats with instructions and recommended pattern
  pieces for making.
- working with blocks.
- how to make a buckram skull crown which then enables you to
  make hundreds of types of close fitting hats.
- how to make half hats.
- blocking with felts and straws.
- using ready made frames.

ACCESSORIES

- how to make gloves including material recommendations, pattern
  tracing, material cutting, adjusting the fingers and
  assembling. Full size patterns are provided for both a large
  and small hand size glove.

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