In a message dated 7/22/2006 12:38:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am still looking for a pattern for a flat cap that would end up > looking like the one in the 1535 portrait of Dona Ana Mauriquez. ************************** It's a donut [the brim] with a circle sewn to the inside "hole". To get the brim to stand up a bit on one side you can wire the outside, and the whole brim should be inner-lined with something stiff. Heavy buckram is the usual candidate for this nowadays. It can be steamed into shape. You can also get all manipulative and take out a small wedge of the circle of the brim at the place where you want it to turn up. You can get it just right by doing a mock up in cardboard, starting with the circle, splitting it where the turn up is to be and overlapping the cardboard at the spit til it looks as you desire. Now of course you don't have a circle any more and a seam must go there, but this can be covered up with trim or a feather and if the hat is velvet, it will practically disappear anyway. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
