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Millinery Articles

Day caps

Period day caps

Tinted day caps

Mid 18th C day cap pattern

Extra hat skills

How to dye straw plait

How to make a Cloche block

How to control the fit of an large crown Edwardian hat

Shaping petersham

Wireframe hats

Wireframe lace Edwardian

Edwardian wireframe

Decorated and in the sun.

1920’s lace wireframe step by step

Millinery feathers

How-to choose ostrich feathers

How-to curl ostrich feathers

How- to make Fiddle Neck feathers

Curled goose feathers

Hackle ornament

Burnt ostrich & goose ornaments

Biot feather flowers

Feather ornament

Using a Drilled Hairpin to Support Feathers

Ribbon work

Triangle cockade

Fabric / ribbon flowers

Working with silk flowers

Using damaged vintage flowers on a hat

Fixing this set of flowers

Reviving this set of flowers

Under brim flowers

How to revive a vintage flower

Velvet leaves and flowers

Velvet rose how-to

Velvet leaves how-to

Straw decorations

Straw and raffia flowers

Straw covered cherries

Straw and raffia acorn beads

Buckram hat info

How-to calculate head size and shape

Old pattern links from LynnMcMasters.com

Making a three part buckram hat

One Reply to “Millinery Articles”

  1. Sarah Hrechun says:
    October 25, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    I always struggle with this! I hate when it ends up looking thrown together. Usually I think it’s because the scale is never big enough to match the historical examples!

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