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Paris: Made by Hand: 50 Shops Where Decorators and Stylists Source the Chic & Unique $9.76 There’s a new trend among the young designers and decorators of Paris: an embracing of an aesthetic called fait main. Literally, this means “made by hand,” but in this case it includes not only new items fashioned by hand but vintage objects and found objects that are valued as they are, or that may have been reworked. What unites them is the “handprint” of a talented creator.Stylist Pia… |
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Course in Creative Hat Designing — A 1940s Guide to Creating Your Own Vintage Hats $16.95 Originally published in 1947, this book focuses on remaking hats and using draping techniques to create beautiful effects quickly. The author discourages the more difficult method of making hats (blocking) and instead teaches you to drape, trim, remodel and make new hats. Step-by-step instructions accompany illustrations for making over 30 hats including: Nugent cut up, Penn poke, main liner, Wal… |
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Millinery — 1930s Hat Making Techniques $16.95 Originally published in 1935, this rare millinery book contains 123 pages of instructions and techniques for creating hats. Ten chapters detail: apparatus used in millinery, pattern making, shape making, covering shapes, headlinings, felt hats, straw hats, stitched hats and berets, children’s millinery, and ribbon trimmings. In addition, the book contains a supplementary section the authors wrote … |