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Interpretive Felting and Hat-making

Q-HW001 Hope Wright – Interpretive Felting and Hat-Making
Making felt from wool, small balls, flat piece, hollow objects and then felt hats. Styles, sizes, shaping hats, sewing in sweat band, care of a felt hat. Additionally a note on the 1830s code of hat wearing. Richly illustrated.
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Donated by Hope Wright.

Here I was thinking that top hats were those cylindrical velvety high hats with a wide brim and a flat crown such as Uncle Sam is pictured wearing, but this book set me right. Top hats could also be a blunt cone with a brim, such as we see pictured on the heads of the early European immigrants into North America, and now that I think of it there are a couple of seventeenth and later century paintings in the Rijksmuseum with gentlemen wearing similar conical hats. The conical shape probably made it easier to release them from the mold. 

Felting is truly a great way to sculpt and shape with wool fibers. You have to rub the fibers together so they grip each other and make an interconnected whole. This book also gives suggestions for beginners to felting. And if you can progress to making a real hat, then you’ll never have to look at a shop window and not seeing anything that would fit and suit you, you can make it yourself!

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