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Course in Creative Hat Designing -- A 1940s Guide to Creating Your Own Vintage Hats
Course in Creative Hat Designing A 1940s Guide to Creating Your Own Vintage Hats Author:Dorothy Nugent Originally published in 1947, this book focuses on remaking hats and using draping techniques to create beautiful effects quickly. The author discourages the more difficult method of making hats (blocking) and instead teaches you to drape, trim, remodel and make new hats. — Step-by-step instructions accompany illustrations for making over 30 hats... more » including: Nugent cut up, Penn poke, main liner, Walnut Lane, Swarthmore, Bellevue, Fairmont, Altemus hat, ribbon hat, draped hood, Park Avenue, single rose hat, Corrigan, college girl, Devon, Bryn Mawr, dunce cap, lace straw hat, puffed beret, draped straw bow, perky bow hat, multicolor chenille, Carmen Miranda, draped turban, two piece fur hat, maid of honor, pinkie winkie, feather fantasy, pom pom hat.
Over 40 more of the authors drawings are completed hats you can easily create using techniques already learned. In addition, this book covers: cleaning straw and felt hats; helpful hints that include advice on stiffening hats that become limp, how to wash soiled feathers, and using steam to freshen a velvet hat; how to make a hat box; what type of hat to wear based on your profile; working with fur; arranging flowers and feathers on hats; properly positioning veils; and a bit of hat design history.
Dorothy Nugent learned the millinery trade from a French designer, taught womens groups how to make their own hats and even created unique purse designs for Queen Elizabeth, Duchess of Winsor, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others. She also dabbled in oil and watercolor painting and used her skills to illustrate this book and her hat designs.
Intended to be a course book for not only learning how to make hats, work with different fabrics, drape and arrange trims -- this book really pulls through as a design source for creative inspiration. Over 130 of the authors drawings show her own creations but leave plenty of room for adding your own personal touches. Sample book images are shown at the top of this page.« less