1952 Retro Hat Making Book: 30 Patterns, 500+ Illustrations, Millinery Guide

How to Make Hats: Easy Step by Step Instructions by Carnahan - Spiral Bound Book Republication - 30 Full-Sized Patterns - Originally published in 1952!

Over 500 Illustrations

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Another marvelous DakotaPrairieTreasures Spiral Bound Book Republication of the original "How to Make Hats: Easy Step by Step Instructions!" Unabridged!

We scanned and reformatted a scare original and are pleased to offer you this wonderful vintage millinery reference for your reenactment or personal recreation sewing pleasures!

This item contains over 500 illustrations regarding the manufacturing of the most deliciously feminine HATS & chapeaux in its 160 pages! It includes instructions for all the necessary steps and needle working techniques to make lovely hats for all seasons for women and girls.

It includes 30 FULL-SIZED PATTERNS for you!

This would be a great reference item for those interested in historical reenactment, stage and theatre costumers, students, fabric artists, Red Hat Society members and more! (Original is NOT for sale)


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This is certainly a fine source of historically valuable techniques and inspiration for the creative millinery and fabric artists out there who recreate the hats and headdresses from the mid 1900's. This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your own version of another wonderful craft instructional revealing our heritage from early America and European cultures!


An excerpt:

"Millinery is art. It pays rich rewards...in self-expression...in a delightful hobby...in a new, more interesting appearance...in building a glamorous wardrobe with a slender budget...perhaps in earning a welcome part-time income, or even entering a highly paid profession."

"When you have become expert in these 28 lessons you will be able to make any hat you desire and qualified to fill a position in a Millinery Salon."


CONTENTS

Lesson No. 1

Equipment Required

Materials Used

Lesson No. 2

Stitches Used

Lesson No. 3

Steaming and Pressing

How to Tale Head Measurements

Lesson No. 4

Cutting and Joining a Bias

Gluing Materials

Lesson No. 5

Cutting a Sailor Pattern

Lesson No. 6

Covering a Sailor Frame

Lesson No. 7

Make Pill Box Frame

Cover Pill Box Frame

Lesson No. 8

Blocking Material for Covering Frame

Covering Frame with Blocked Material

Lesson No. 9

Hat Anchorages

Linings

Headbands

Lesson No. 10

Ribbon Cocarde

Ribbon Ornaments and Bands

Lesson No. 11

Ribbon Bows

Lesson No. 12

How to Apply Trimmings

Lesson No. 13

Bird Cage Veil

Lesson No. 14

Making Paper Pattern for a Rolled Brim

Covering a Breton Sailor

Lesson No. 15 & 16

Making a 1" Straw Braid Hat Using a Buckram Frame for a Block

Making a 1" Straw Braid Pill Box

Lesson No. 17

Blocking a Rough Straw Body

Lesson No. 18

Making Hat of 5" Straw Banding

Lesson No. 19

Making Scalloped Calot

Lesson No. 20

Making Wool Felt Hat and Bag

Lesson No. 21

Flowered Hat

Lesson No. 22

Stitched Casual Hat

Stitched Bag

Lesson No. 23

Blocking Felt Crown and Brim on Separate Blocks

Binding Felt Brim with Ribbon

Lesson No. 24

Self Trimmings

Hat Pins

Maline Pompoms

Lesson No. 25

Beaded Velvet Beret and Bag

Lesson No. 26

Draped Turban

Lesson No. 27 Felt Pattern Hat

Lesson No. 28

Felt Hat with 3-piece Crown


What a historically educational and delightful millinery art instructional piece this is!

The ladies of earlier times put their hands to such marvelous work and now you can too! These are beautiful items and sure to delight you and yours! These instructions are very clear and easy to follow and yet the experience needleworker will be capable of altering as per individual needs and artistic whim.

The vintage thread, fabrics, hat blocks, flowers, feathers, etc., can be found online quite readily. You just have to hunt a little bit! :) Or, of course, you can utilize contemporary tools and materials found at a near by fabric, craft or hobby store.

The Spiral Bound Book Republication™ you will receive is representative of the types of handicraft expertise of earlier genteel and feminine American and European culture! If you're into nostalgia like I am you will have many hours of enjoyment recreating antique needlework items for yourself or others dear to your heart just the way your grandmothers did!
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