Millinery Articles

Wireframe hats

Recreating a 1920s San Francisco made hat

Wireframe lace Edwardian

Edwardian wireframe

Decorated and in the sun.

1920’s lace wireframe step by step

Extra hat skills

How to make a Cloche block

How to control the fit of an large crown Edwardian hat

Shaping petersham

How to make a flared top hat

Day caps

Article on the 1838 “Workmoman’s Guide” day cap patterns

Mid 18th C day cap pattern

Period day caps

Tinted day caps

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

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. 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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