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How to Make Hats at Home -- 1950s Hat Making Simplified
by Irene Sutton

{softcover, 57 pages, 7.44x9.69, 2009, ISBN: 1934268577}

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Originally published in 1952, this book will show you how to make five hat styles -- pill box, calot, jockey, cloche and sailor. Contents of this book include:

- making paper patterns
- cutting and placing material on frames
- lining your hat
- making hat bands
- trimming (includes feather pattern)
- making covered and felt hat pins
- draping fabrics
- draping felts
- working with felts
- restyling old hats
- inexpensive household items to use if you do not have a block
- working with straw
- making hats with straw
- making frames
- making a hat pattern using an existing hat
- making a hat from ties
- making an all-over flowered hat
- working with fur
- using the "circle method" to easily create hats of straw

Patterns pieces are included for a brim, cloche, sectional crown, feathers and a fabric orchid. 70 illustrations accompany the author's text.