Edwardian Hat and Veil Pattern Making, Techniques and Construction
by Amy Reeve, edited by Bramcost Publications

Book Details

• Note: We are the publisher of this book. Buy with confidence.
• Condition: New
• Edition: High-quality, unabridged reprint, carefully restored for modern readers
• Originally published: 1915
• Publisher: Bramcost Publications
• Publication year (reprint): 2007
• Format: Softcover
• Pages: 96
• Size: 6x9 inches
• Language: English

  

Originally published in 1915, this rare millinery book contains 96 pages of pattern making, techniques and construction of hats and veils from the Edwardian era. Inside you'll find 41 chapters detailing:

• Cutting Patterns - Cutting a Hat Shape by Folding Paper: cutting pattern for brim, to cut the crown, for obtaining tip, crown with little slope, another method of cutting a head or side band, round or molded crown, high molded crown, for oval brims and crowns
• To Copy by Measurement: measurements for hats, measurements for bonnets, bonnet pattern, taken in paper or leno, for buckram or stiff net, to take a pattern of a hat in paper
• Buckram and Espatra Shapes: laying out the pattern, fixing pattern together, crown separate from brim, making crown, for curved brims and crowns, for rolled brims, espatra rolled brim
• Covering a Buckram or Espatra Shape: cutting out the velvet, fitting and fixing velvet, crown, fixing the side band, for round crown
• Head Linings for Hats and Bonnets: head linings for hats, head linings for bonnets
• Bandeaux: oval bandeaux, straight bandeaux, back bandeaux, round bandeaux, shaped bandeaux
• Bow Making: tied bow, butterfly bow, alsatian bow, wiring ribbon for bows, another method of wiring a bow, silk bows
• Rosettes: to make a rosette on a foundation, crossway silk rosette, a cross-way silk rosette on a foundation, a velvet rosette, rosettes of gathered ribbon, baby ribbon rosette, chiffon, tulle or net rosettes, pleated ribbon rosette, petal rosette, ribbon rosette
• Wire Shape Making: to practice cutting, nipping and tying, to cut the wire, to nip one wire over another, to tie one over another, to nip one wire over another, there are two ways in making a shape, points to be remembered
• Making a Wire Shape: method of working, points to remember, for a large crown, a turned-up edge, mushroom brim, to copy a shape
• Making a Wire Bonnet: measurements required
• A Hat Shape in Stiff Net: hat shape in stiff net, round crown of net without wires, a soft toque or motor bonnet
• Straw Working: method 1 - straw worked over a wire shape, round crown, brim; method 2, crown, brim; method 3; method 4; the principles of straw working without a wire shape, makes of straw
• Stitches Used in Millinery
• To Cut Material on the Bias or Cross
• Velvets
• Crape: cutting crape on the cross, rouleau of crape, crape piping or roll, crossway folds for hat or bonnet, mourning hats and bonnets
• Widows Veils: a lisse veil, box pleated veil, a crepe veil, lisse veil with crape border and rouleaux, to stitch on trimmings (bows, flowers, feathers, ornaments such as buckles, etc.), ruchings, wings and quills, lace and draperies, rouleaux
• Linings for Hat Brims: a tucked chiffon or tulle underlining, a gathered tucked brim, hat lined with bias folds in chiffon or silk, a lace brim, brim with velvet folds, to bind a hat, another method for a velvet bind
• Lace: to make a lace crown, to make a lace wing or quill, wiring lace for a fan, lace or net ruchings, to wire a lace for bow, lace rosette, matinee cap of lace, lady's cap foundation
• Confirmation and Bridal Veils
• Silk Flower Making: rose, leaf, sweet pea, apple, parma violets, single violets, daisy or marguerite, mounting flowers
• Children's Millinery: to take the measurements of a child's head for a bonnet, to take a head-size for a hat, children's and infants' bonnets, materials used for foundations, head linings, materials, trimmings
• Children's Millinery Continued: to cut a pattern of a girl's first bonnet, measurements required, method for making bonnet, materials
• Children's Millinery Continued: baby boy's first hat, materials, method of making, another style
• Children's Millinery Continued: child's puritan or Dutch bonnet shape for buckram, front of bonnet pattern, back of bonnet, to cut out the coronet, method of making buckram and net shape and covering, materials, method of making shape, method of covering, another style of Dutch bonnet
• Children's Millinery Continued: child's liberty hat, cutting and preparing silk for brim, head lining, trimming, to prepare silk when the brim is narrower at the back, cloth or linen hat, cloth hat
• Renovation of Hats: straw hats, to freshen a black chip, to renovate a black straw hat, to use varnish, to clean a white straw or chip, leghorn hats or panamas, to make a black a white straw, brown straw, blue straw, to clean felt hats, for black or dark colored felts, white felt, light brown felt, grey felt
• Renovations: to clean black lace, method 1, method 2, method 3, method 4, method 5, to wash white lace -- method 1, method 2 -- for lace yellow with age, to clean lace without washing, dry cleaning, butter color or ecru, to clean gold lace, to clean silver trimmings, to renovate crape
• Renovations Continued: to renovate black corded and satin ribbons, to renovate silk ribbons, to clean ribbon, to renovate velvet ribbons, how to wash silk (colored), how to wash white silk, chiffon, velvet, to freshen black velvet or velveteen, to clean fur, another method of cleaning furs, on the care of millinery, to clean black beaver hats
• On Blending Colors: contrasts
• On Wearing Suitable Colors: black, white, violet, blue, yellow, green, red and orange, purple, brown, fawn, grey
• Form: on wearing a becoming hat, a long face, a round face, wearing a straw hat at the right angle, on wearing veils
• Feather Curling: steaming, shaping, curling, to make the pass
• Standard Materials Used for Millinery Foundations
• Materials Used for Trimming Purposes
• Terms Used in Millinery
• Hints to be Borne in Mind by Those Preparing for Examination
• A Course of Twenty Lessons in Millinery
• Dont's
• Always

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. A detailed section on wire shape making allows almost any style of hat to be made when covering with fabric, velvet or lace overlays and trimmings. A page of reduced-size images for crowns and brims along with text instructions for cutting, sizing and assembly are included. Instructions and illustrations are provided for making a girls' liberty hat, baby boy's hat, stitched cloth hat, Dutch bonnet, ribbon flowers, confirmation veil, bridal veil, and boudoir cap of lace.

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