hats patterns and fans by Lynn McMasters
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.
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.
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.
I just added a gallery of many hats made from my Late Victorian Small Bonnet pattern as well as some vintage and Fashion Plates of similar hats. It includes more photos of this Evening Wireframe Version.
I revised and added to my article on “How to Dye Straw Hats”
FYI There are other businesses that resell my patterns they also sell some hat making supplies.
In the UK. https://www.venacavadesign.co.uk
In the EU. https://www.la-rose-passementarie.com/en/
On the East Coast of the US. https://corsetmaking.com/Departments/Hat-Making
I will be selling off some of my hats and sometimes other costume items. From time to time I will add them to this page.
