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

By Ann Albrizio and Osnat Lustig

Book Overview

An illustrated guide to the techniques of millinery, which includes instructions for making 15 different types of hat. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157990016X
• ISBN13: 9781579900168
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Lark Books
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.8" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Milliner ~ Hatmaker

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

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.

Excellence.

I'm a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where the author of this book has taught. Currently I am taking a millinery class there, where it was recommended that I buy this book. It's a perfect supplement to any millinery class, and to use after the classes when you're doing things on your own as a guide. One thing though: There was a mix-up with the photos on page 51. It's a confusing subject anyway so I think I should point out... Millinery belting ribbon, as Ann describes, has a scalloped edge; and grosgrain ribbon, which isn't used in hats (at least for the inside band) has a straight edge. The little diagram photos must have gotten mixed up, and they show the opposite. Otherwise, a wonderful book with very professional techniques (techniques you can only get from someone with serious professional and industrial experience).

Hat lovers' dream how-to book

Author based this book on the first of five millinery courses in the curriculum she designed for the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC - and it looks every bit that comprehensive. Lots of full color photos show many possibilities for several contamporary hat types, and all the photos are based on the techniques outlined in the book. Covers straw and fabric boaters, basic band berets, 2-piece and stylized berets, basic turbans, pillboxes, cloches, visors, round blocked crowns, stylized shaped brims, cocktail/Juliet caps, and garlands. Author touches on design, spends a generous amount of pages on construction steps, 4 pages of glossary, 3 pages of sources, 2 pages on starting a small millinery busines, and adequately covers measurements. Trimming info includes feathers in detail, silk flowers, fasteners, horsehair, and fabric roses/bows. She includes many helpful hints, descriptions of basic millinery stitches, fabric do's and don'ts, and a very comprehensive list of supplies. Author says this book is sufficient to aid you in making professional quality hats, and I believe her. But prepare to acquire some new tools unless you already have a well-stocked workroom. Even a non-hat-wearer like myself gets excited by the possibilities of building great original headwear. For anyone who loves wearing original hats, or for a cocktail party regular, this would be a perfect gift. Can't think of anything that I would add to this book, except more, more, more photos!