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So it was suggested that maybe we needed a thread dedicated for hats. So hey, share your favorite hats! Self-made, store-bought, new or historic, neat, useful, fun, whatever...
This was spurred by my mentioning I had recently made a pirate hat with lace. It's the easiest thing to make a cocked hat ("tricorne" is a Victorian neologism) - you just take a regular felt hat blank (a plain unshaped crown with a brim) and tack up the brim in three places. Also, I learned that historically cocked hats with lace were definitely A Thing, and not just for the ladies.
I sewed the brim trimmings on before cocking up the brim. I happened to have a couple of lengths of rayon lace that were a little too short for most projects, but were just about perfect for this (takes about a yard to go around this brim). I threaded some of that thin silk ribbon they sell for embroidery through the lace that would show on the outside.
Then I took an awl and some leather lacing, poked holed in the brim and crown and tied the brim up in three parts. Ta dah!
(I may add a lining later.)
This was spurred by my mentioning I had recently made a pirate hat with lace. It's the easiest thing to make a cocked hat ("tricorne" is a Victorian neologism) - you just take a regular felt hat blank (a plain unshaped crown with a brim) and tack up the brim in three places. Also, I learned that historically cocked hats with lace were definitely A Thing, and not just for the ladies.
I sewed the brim trimmings on before cocking up the brim. I happened to have a couple of lengths of rayon lace that were a little too short for most projects, but were just about perfect for this (takes about a yard to go around this brim). I threaded some of that thin silk ribbon they sell for embroidery through the lace that would show on the outside.
Then I took an awl and some leather lacing, poked holed in the brim and crown and tied the brim up in three parts. Ta dah!
(I may add a lining later.)