[Gutenberg 19740] • Make Your Own Hats
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- Authors
- Martin, Gene Allen
- Publisher
- Northern Lights Vintage
- Tags
- hats , reference , millinery
- Date
- 2007-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.43 MB
- Lang
- en
MAKE YOUR OWN HATS by GENE ALLEN MARTIN
Copyright 1921 by Gene Allen Martin, Director of domestic arts of the Minneapolis Y.W.C.A.; designer, demonstrator and instructor in millinery. Illustrated by E.E. Martin. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company.
CONTENTS
I. Equipment and Materials
II. Covering Frame with Velvet
III. Frames of Neteen and Crinoline
IV. Wire Frames
V. Round Crown of Wire
VI. Hat Coverings
VII. Trimmings
VIII. Hand-Made Flowers
IX. Remodeling and Renovating
The contents of each chapter are as follows:
CHAPTER I -- EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS
Equipment
Materials used to make Hat Frames
\- Buckram
\- Crinoline
\- Neteen or fly net
\- Cape net
\- Willow plate
\- Cable
\- Frame or brace wire
\- Lace
\- Tie—
\- Ribbon
\- Sprung
Hat Frames of Fabric
\- Sailor hat frame
\- Pattern for brim
\- Headsize wire
\- To measure
\- To shape
\- To locate headsize on pattern
\- To cut buckram brim
\- To sew headsize wire to brim
\- Edge wire
\- To cover edge wire
\- Right side—wrong side
\- Square crown
\- Pattern for slanting side crown
\- To cut side crown from buckram
\- Crown tips
\- Soft crown tip
\- Stiff crown tip, made of buckram
\- Crowns
\- To cover round crown
CHAPTER II -- COVERING FRAME WITH VELVET
\- To cover brim
\- To sew velvet edge to brim
\- To face under side of brim
\- To cover crown top
\- To cover side crown
\- To sew crown on brim
\- Edge of brim facing, when finished without wire
\- To cover narrow brim sailor without an edge seam
\- Facings
\- Brims covered with two kinds of fabric
\- Shaped brim foundation
\- To make pattern for brim
\- To cover a mushroom-shaped brim
\- Sheer materials
\- Pattern for hat with rolled or close-fitting brim
\- To cover a close-fitting or rolled brim
\- To slipstitch seam
\- To glue velvet to the brim
\- A shirred crown of fabric
CHAPTER III -- FRAMES OF NETEEN AND CRINOLINE
\- To join the seam in the back
\- To sew edge wire on neteen
\- To make a turban frame of neteen or crinoline
\- To wire turban flare
\- Covering
\- turbans
CHAPTER IV -- WIRE FRAMES
\- Equipment
\- To open coil of wire
\- To cut wire
\- To straighten wire
\- To tie wire
\- To fasten two pieces of brace wire diagonally
\- To fasten two pieces of brace wire without the use of tie wire
\- To make wire frame for hat having flat brim and square crown
\- Pattern for brim
\- Headsize wire for wire frame
\- Working measurements needed
\- Sticks for brim
\- Edge wire
\- To join edge wire
\- Collar of brim
\- Square crown for wire frame
\- Base wire for crown
\- Transparent hats
CHAPTER V -- ROUND CROWN OF WIRE
\- Base wire
\- Circles or hoops
\- To finish the base of the crown
\- A shaped wire frame made in one piece
\- Pattern for brim
\- Crown
\- Brim A rolling brim
\- To color wire frames
\- Halo hat brims
\- Headsize wire for halo brim
\- Crown for halo brim
CHAPTER VIII -- HAND-MADE FLOWERS
\- Material required
\- American Beauty rose
\- Ribbon rose
\- Foli