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Classic Millinery Techniques: A Complete Guide to Making & Designing Today's Hats

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Comprehensive Modern Guide to Fabric Covered Hats
A milliner's milliner
Excellent Hat-Making Guide
Milliner ~ Hatmaker
A good book if you want to design Your own hats

Classic Millinery Techniques: A Complete Guide to Making & Designing Today's Hats
Ann Albrizio , and Osnat Lustig
Manufacturer: Lark Books (NC)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Take basic sewing skills, add half a yard of fabric, and make one of 15 custom hats designed by an award-winning milliner. More than 250 illustrations guide you from drafting patterns to creating classic, head-turning hats. Start with a shirred beret, move on to a cloche, pillbox, or sailor hat.

Customer Reviews:

Comprehensive Modern Guide to Fabric Covered Hats.......2007-03-30

This text features incredibly well photographed images and clear diagrams. The writing itself is very easy to understand. Naturally it helps if you have a basic understanding of fabric (such as bias and fabric content) and at the bare minimum basic sewing skills (sewing machine, hand sewing and lots of patience.) This is a very thorough text.

This book features highly on the list of millinery resources that I reccomend to people. The others being From the Neck Up and Hats on Heads.

Please note that it doesn't refer to sinamay work, but techniques can be adapted. Nor does it address the blocking of hats such as felts or straw (only covering them if memory serves...). You would require a basic block to shape the lining fabrics for some cocktail pieces.

Classic Millinery Techniques is a beautiful and virtually priceless book that will compliment your millinery work, hobby and studies. It's an astute investment and very inspirational.

A milliner's milliner.......2006-08-02

Ms. Albrizio based this book on the courses she used to teach at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is now 93 years old and retired from the millinery business, but I have never forgotten her spirit and determination to teach the future milliners of the world and to inspire all her students to wear their creations with flair. I spent a decade in the millinery business because of her instruction and had some great fun. I highly recommend this book and will always remember Ms. Albrizio, the Grand Dame...all decked out for the NY Easter Parade with her students...all wearing their favorite creations. Great fun!!!

Excellent Hat-Making Guide.......2004-06-15

This book covers most of the techniques needed for making hats. It is beautifully bound and tasefully illustrated.

Milliner ~ Hatmaker.......2002-02-09

Lovely compelation of photos that go hand in hand w/ technique.
Gets you to jump right in making hats starting w/ basic techniques. An easy to follow learning method that moves you along starting w/ the basic cut and sew and moving on to more advaced methods.
Follow her suggested guide lines for using the book.
Are you the hands on type? Get this book. Youll be wearing a hat you made in no time.

A good book if you want to design Your own hats.......2002-02-05

I have attended evening-classes in millinery, and it was obvius to me that the writer is an experienced teacher. The book focuses mainly on how to make hats of ones own design. You are instructed how to construct your own patterns and how to make the patterns into hats. Most techniques were familliar to me from the evening-classes, some were variations. If You have some experience of sewing or millinery and wish to transform your dreamhat into reality I recomend this book to you.

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