200 Ways to Trim a Hat!
Comb Bound Book Republication
Originally Published - 1949!
Why Buy Just One?
Receive a 50% shipping discount, on all items in your order after the first purchase, providing all are paid for in a single payment as invoiced!
Up for bid is another marvelous Dakota Prairie Treasures Comb Bound Book Republication of our original, "200 Ways to Trim a Hat" by Virginia Allen McIntire! Originally published in 1949!
This HISTORIC item includes detailed instructions and needle working techniques to make the lovely trims for the multitude of various hat styles included within! (Original is NOT for sale)
This item is a great resource for those who are Swing Era historical reenactment enthusiasts, stage and theatre costumers, students of historical clothing, fiber and textile arts, etc!
Our customers say:
"As a seamstress I adore this. Rate service excellent. A++++"
This is certainly a fine source of historically valuable techniques & inspiration for the creative needlework, fabric & thread artists who desire to study and create with tried-and-true professional millinery trim making techniques! This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your own version of another wonderful arts & crafts instructional revealing our heritage from earlier America culture!
An excerpt:
"Meet all the millinery styles
Know your best hat shapes
Easy tricks to fool the budget
Professional tips on how-to-do
Create your custom millinery
Fashion-wise illustrated ideas designed for every woman who wants pretty hats"
Index
Chapter
Introduction
Can I Trim My Own Hats?
Of course - Try These
Let's Face It
The Basic Shapes and Hat Styles
Berets
Large or little, quaint or custom-made
Bonnets
For every age in a dozen styles
Cloches
Brimmed, snug-skull, and profile lines
The Crown and Brim Hat Family
Derbys, fedoras, bowlers, postilions, sports casuals, cuff hats, bretons, sun shades, cartwheels, sailors
Pillboxes
Little and versatile. Bumper styles
Trimming Sampler
Ribbons, veils, feathers, flowers
How to Do's
Trimming tricks for professional results
Tall Hats
Cossacks, shakos, fez, toques, turbans
Little Hats
Calots, shells, halos, helmets, dressy models, trim-only ideas
Young Ideas
Gay and fresh for junior heads
Trimmings Ideas Under $1.00
Tricks to Fool the Budget
Care of Your Hats
Custom-made Millinery
Fabulous Hats
The chapeau beautiful is yours
What a historically educational and delightful milliner's fancy needle art instructional 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 antique and vintage fabrics, wires, tools, feathers, blocks, 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 nearby fabric, craft or hobby store…
The item you will receive is representative of the types of needlework expertise of earlier genteel & feminine American & 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 just the way your grandmothers did!
The Comb 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. Our Comb Bound Republication has so many more advantages over the original book.
What are the benefits of our antique book Comb Bound Book Republications?
* Our products are produced with front and back covers of heavy stock paper.
* Our products are made using the latest LaserJet printing technology meaning the ink will not smear like inferior photocopy or inkjet products do.
* Our Comb binding allows your book to lie flat during use for ease of viewing while working on your needlework projects.
* Our products do not cost a small fortune for you to obtain and enjoy.
* Every image and every page has been scanned to produce crystal clear images and you never have to deal with any crumbling old paper!
* These scans are enlarged to full-page dimensions for ease of viewing!
* You can gift these wonderful Victorian, Edwardian, Titanic and Flapper pattern book finds with family and friends!
You will appreciate the attention we have taken in providing you with a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that will be use for many years to come...
Check out Dakota Prairie Treasures' current auctions for many other unique Millinery Comb Bound Book, CD and Single Pattern Republications for your creative needle working pleasure!
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