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I just added an article on how these curls were make from simple braiding hair and monofilament thread.

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Photos by Laure Jacquemin ©2024 used with permission.

I just added a rewrite of my article on how to make a Flared Top Hat with a buckram base and not over a wooden block (puzzle block). It includes a pdf of the making of this copy of the Mad Hatter’s hat from the Disney movie.

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I just added my How-to make period hairdos for display heads.

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Would you like to see a new edition of my Late Victorian Tall Hat that adds instructions on how to make a straw tall hat over a block made from the pattern? The existing pattern has instructions for fabric over buckram and straw plait over buckram but not how to take a sun hat and block one. The crown block would be make from cardboard and the brim block from styrofoam. Comment below……

Model: Noelle Paduan (left)

I just added an article on how to make some of the popular feather fancies of the last decade of the 19th Century.

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Link to a page with 19 museum examples of late 18th C evening hats/bonnets and/or hats with Jet beads.

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Working with modern net lace: how to join, edge, appliqué and create the shapes you want.

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Includes a pdf pattern for an 18th C French lace cap.

In 2024 we acquired a collection of hat ornaments from the second half of the 1800s to the early 1900s. This 6 page set of instructions has bead counts, Wire lengths and full instructions for two reproduction ornaments and one I developed from the techniques I discovered from studying the antique examples.

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