Your Millinery

Your Millinery

Author:Winifred Reiser

Silvan Press, London, 1949

Reproduction: Dakota Prarie Treasures, 2008

 A timeless guide to hat-making written by Winifred Reiser. Complete with a number of photographs and over seventy millinery examples, this antique text is perfect for both the amateur and student, providing all the basic elementary principles intrinsic to successful hat-making in an accessible and comprehensive manner. Although there is a technical emphasis to this treatise, most tools can be found in the house and require little familiarity. Chapters included within this text are: The Workroom and its Equipment, Materials, Design and Choice, The Sailor Hat in Felt, The off the Face Hat, The Beret, The Pill Box, The Toque, The Off the face Hat in Satin, A Sports Hat in Stitched Angora, and Trimmings.

This classic text is a great resource for those who milliners, hat makers, historical reenactment enthusiasts, students of historical clothing, fiber and textile arts.