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Millinery -- 1930s Hat Making Techniques 
by Violet Brand

{softcover, 123 pages, 6x9, 2007, ISBN: 193426850X}

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Originally published in 1935, this rare millinery book contains 123 pages of instructions and techniques for creating hats. Ten chapters detail:

- apparatus used in millinery
- pattern making
- shape making
- covering shapes
- headlinings
- felt hats
- straw hats
- stitched hats and berets
- children's millinery
- ribbon trimmings

In addition, the book contains a supplementary section the authors wrote specific for hat styles of the 1930s. The section includes photographs of sample hat styles and a bit of instruction for each with further reference back to the more detailed instructions in the main text. Wiring the edge of a turn-up brim, moulding a curved brim, blocking a millinery net crown, making a brim and sideband in one piece, ironing a brim into shape, small hats with crossway brims, making tucks in felt hats, and much more are covered in the supplementary section.

This book goes into specifics about creating your own patterns from existing hats and customizing for your specific needs based on details like your hairstyle height and length, brim preferences and current fashion trends. A combination of photos and illustrations guide you along with creating patterns from existing hats, but specific patters are included for a boy's school cap, girl's bonnet, baby boy's hat, girl's bonnet with horse shoe crown and woman's beret.

The book is well illustrated and the text is detailed with step-by-step instructions for creating items, working with millinery techniques and constructing your own hats with that 1930s flare.