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Millinery -- 1920s Hat Making Techniques
by Jane Loewen

{softcover, 213 pages, 6x9, 2008, ISBN: 1934268860}

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Originally published in 1926, this rare millinery book contains 213 pages of hat making information and techniques. Jane Loewen was a millinery instructor at the University of Chicago and her book is laid out as a teaching guide complete with detailed instructions. She also designed hats and created patterns for the CA Loewen Co in Chicago which appeared in The Milliner Magazine in the 1920s.

Over 100 diagrams and photographs help explain the hat making process, with many of the images depicting the hat styles in vogue in the mid-1920s. With so many hat styles displayed from a 1920s hat designer and teacher, you will get a first hand idea of how to recreate these same designs for either vintage looks or modern day hat designs. Fifteen chapters detail the following (with chapters subdivided into hundreds of informative parts):

- Wire Frames (constructing a wire frame, dimensions for standard
  hats, mathematical side of framing, uses of wire frames)
- Molded Frames (molded or pressed frames, hand-molded frames,
  bias dry-molded frames)
- Pattern Frames (classification of frames made from patterns,
  comparison of processes in making unrolled and rolled frames,
  cutting the frame, wiring frame, binding a frame, covering
  frame with interlining)
- Crowns (frame foundations used for crowns, kinds of crowns,
  outline of kinds of crowns and their appropriate brims, how to
  determine kinds of crowns suitable to individual types of
  faces)
- Staple Millinery Materials
- Cutting Materials (cutting a true bias, cutting a long bias,
  table of bias measurements, measuring a frame for correct
  amount of material, accuracy in cutting, methods used for
  cutting maline, cutting bias binding from frame and crown
  edges, and more)

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