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    Selected Articles on Materials Used to Make Hats - A Milliner's Guide
    Selected Articles on Materials Used to Make Hats - A Milliner's Guide
    Selected Articles on Materials Used to Make Hats - A Milliner's Guide
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    Selected Articles on Materials Used to Make Hats - A Milliner's Guide

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    Any milliner will know how important selecting material is when it comes to making hats. This will enable you to select the perfect material for the hat you're making. Whether it be stiffened materials for the foundations of caps, turbans and coiffures or the lace, tulle or crape for the drapery of a cap. There is an abundance on information on all aspects of materials for hat-making including basic workshop staples, notes on working with different types of fabric and selecting colours.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473390508
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      Selected Articles on Materials Used to Make Hats - A Milliner's Guide - Read Books Ltd.

      On the Selection of Material,

      WITH SOME REMARKS ON TASTE, ETC.

      I mean by the word Taste, no more than that faculty, or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or which form a judgment of the works of imagination and the elegant arts.

      BURKE.

      Goût, ce terme en général ne présente à l’esprit qu’ une facilité à voir d’un coup-d’œil, et à savoir dans l’instant le point de beauté propre à chaque sujet.—Dictionnaire des Beaux Arts.

      WE may first observe that one of the most important of all points connected with the practice of millinery, is a judicious selection of materials.

      In the next place, consider as an universal rule, that stiffened materials are desirable only for the foundation of caps, turbans, and coiffures, of all denominations.

      With regard to ribbons, such only should be chosen as bear the stamp of fashion, and are of a colour suitable to the season. Attention should likewise be given to the prevailing style in reference to breadth or narrowness, and also to the texture, whether satin, gauze, or lutestring, &c. &c.; all of which minute points are completely governed by the caprice of La mode.

      Again, as relates to the selection of the material of which the drapery of the cap is to be composed, whether net, crape, blonde, tulle, gauze, or lace, too much cannot be advanced in favour of its softness and flexibility, as nothing is more likely to detract from the effect of all millinery productions than substance.

      To give a pretty and lady-like appearance to any description of head-dress, the material must be of a light and graceful character. For ourselves, we

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