Up for bid is another marvelous Dakota Prairie
Treasures Spiral Bound Book Republication™ of
the original WWII
Swing Era, "How to Make and Trim Your Own HATS!" This item has
95 pages of in-depth instructions for this art, covering a plethora of aspects and
techniques for custom making hats, caps, purses, bags and more. More information
than you can shake a stick at! (Original is not for sale)
There is every
style from sailors, to sun hats, demure maidens, saucy nurses and
French Maids, etc!
Excerpts:
"COMPLETE
INSTRUCTIONS and PATTERNS from start to finish. How to CUT * PIN * SEW * PUT
TOGETHER * Calots, Straws, Sailors, Half-Hats, Pillboxes, Off-the-Face Brims,
Jockey Hats, Snoods, Dutch Bonnets, Knitted and Crochet Hats. BAGS TO MATCH -
Over-Arm Bag, Crochet Over-the-Shoulder Bag, plus Scores of TRIMMING IDEAS and
Instructions for Summer, Spring and Winter, Veilings, Flowers, Hat Pins,
Ribbons, Beadings, Embroideries and Sequins."
"Big Complete Guide -
Everything the Beginner or Expert Needs to Know! Now you can make your own hats
- create them just the way you want them - each a "French Creation!"
"For here are complete instructions and
patterns for any hat you want to make - and so easy to follow you can't possibly
go wrong. Dutch Bonnets, Calots, Sailors, Jockey and Half hats, Curvettes and
unusual Head Bands, Pill Box and Snood Hats…this beautifully illustrated book
takes apart and simplifies every step you need to know to make these and many
more.
Here too are complete Crochet instructions
for seven Hats; how to crochet head bands, edgings and hat pins plus patterns
for expensive-looking Felt and Material Pouch and Collar Box Bags and a Crochet
Over-the-Shoulder Bag.
And still more!...dozens of exciting
trimming ideas, quick changes to rejuvenate, retrim and remake last year's
favorite hat. Professional rules for putting on veilings, flowers and feathers,
How to make a hat out of flowers and veilings alone. How to combine materials,
choose felts, wire brims and block a hat. Felt, appliqué, flower and leaf
designs from which to choose. Hand made flowers for a custom made look.
Different type bows for different parts of the hat. How to achieve French Room
effects with inexpensive materials. How to build up ready-made foundations, cut
buckram, make tubing, linings, head size ribbons and bandeaus. How to block a
hat, cut and make a brim, seam-press and work with straw, fur and
velvet.
A complete remake chart, including examples
and step by step instructions for re-using trims, "sizing" straws, reblocking
and cleaning felts and straws, remaking covered frames and pressing veils and
maline. Instructions for making and covering frames, brims, and hard to find
foundations. The importance of hat and hair lines, how to develop a style, how
to use professional millinery equipment.
Yes! If you can sew you can easily make the
most intricate hat…if you can merely pin, then right away you can make a smart
cocktail hat."
All methods are clearly described
step-by-step. All styles noted are presented with suggestions from a to z! The
instructions for these items were created by experienced needlework artists from
1944 and earlier!
Contents:
CHAPTER 1-THE STYLE ELEMENT IN
MILLINERY
How to develop a sense of style and design. Hat lines. Head
size and non-head-size hats, Eye lines. The hat block.
CHAPTER II-MILLINERY
SUPPLIES
How to use buckram, crinoline, wire, glue. Millinery needles
and thread, starched chiffon, sizing, hat blocks. Millinery equipment. How to
steam-press.
CHAPTER III-MILLINERY
MATERIALS
Classification of materials: felt, fur, wool, cotton felts,
straw. How to choose the material. How to make a Dutch bonnet for mother and
daughter. Patterns. Small, medium, large headsizes. Sequins and embroidery.
CHAPTER IV-WOOL-FELT BAGS
Instructions, patterns and diagrams for over-arm pouch bag,
collar box, and other pouch bags.
CHAPTER V-PROFESSIONAL DETAILS OF
MILLINERY
When to use and how to cut bias material. How to combine
materials. How to wire straw and felt brims. How to make a lining. How to sew in
a headsize ribbon. How to block a hat. How to shrink to size. Fancy blocks made
from spools and boxers. How to make down-brim blocks. Blocking the brim. How to
cut brim from crown. Off-the-face brim. Suggestions for trimming brimmed hats.
CHAPTER VI-HALF-HATS
How to make foundations for half-hats. How to make ear-muff.
Dutch half-bound curvette hats. How to trim half-hats.
CHAPTER VII-TRIMMINGS
How to make and use jersey, braided, grosgrain bandeaus. How
to make and use tubing. How to sew on flowers and veiling. The tie-tack method.
Ruffle and chin veils, veils for pillbox and bumper brims. How to combine
flowers and veiling. How to use maline. Maline cocktail hat. Ideas for a
bridesmaid hat. How to make covered hatpins. Tricks with hatpins. How to change
a hat by changing trimming. How to make felt appliqué, flower and leaf design.
"French Room: trim. Taffeta satin, felt vows. Using inexpensive material.
Built-up foundations. How to make your own snood of velvet, veiling, or flowers.
Fur and straw hats. How to make a hat out of ribbon and flowers.
CHAPTER VIII-HOW TO REMAKE AND
RENOVATE
What to do with old ornaments, fur felts, wool felts. How to
reblock felt, frame and material hats. How to reuse trims, clean hats. How to
remake felts and straws. Complete remake chart. How to make seven "old" hats
into smart new styles. Step-by-step instructions. Sizing straw hats. Remaking
covered frames. Business possibilities.
CHAPTER IX-HOW TO MAKE HAT
FOUNDATIONS
Complete
instructions and diagrams for six-section crown, all-in-one crown. Chart showing
remake possibilities. "How to Change" chart. Foundations No. 1 and No. 2.
CHAPTER X-READY-MADE
FRAMES
How to use
ready-made frames. How to cut patterns from a frame brim. How to cover frames,
flat crowns, round crowns. How to make a cover and. "Do's and Don'ts."
CHAPTER XI-FRAMES-AND HOW TO MAKE YOUR
OWN
Instructions
for making and covering. How to make pillbox and visor hats. Hats that become
you-common sense in choosing your hat. Novel cut-out crowns and side
trims.
CHAPTER XII-CROWN SECTION
Instructions for crocheting sailor, turban, Dutch cap,
over-the-eye hat, half-hat. Crocheted edgings, hat bands, hatpins.
Over-the-shoulder bag.
READY
REFERENCE GUIDE
The antique and
vintage materials this exciting instructional recommends can be found on eBay
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…
What a
historically educational and delightful 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 needle worker will be capable of altering as per individual
needs and artistic whim...
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 great-grandmothers did!
You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come. This information has been scanned at a high resolution and electronically revamped to provide you with the very best hardcopy reproduction. Unlike other reproduction sellers this is NOT a cheap, grainy photocopy! Our Spiral Bound Republication™ has so many more advantages over the original book.
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