Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
In my research on women's clothing from this period, which I am
undertaking at the moment, I keep coming across the word "chip" used as
a material for bonnets. The drawings of such bonnets look like they are
made of straw to me, but they seem to be distinguished from straw hats,
which are described as such, in some fashion. Does anyone know what
kind of material chip was?
Oooh! I was just reading about that in one of my Christmas-gift books.
Hats and Bonnets from Snowshill, by Althea Mackenzie.
There's a picture of the inside of a deteriorating hat and it says it's
"constructed of chip made from fine slivers of wood that offered a
cheaper alternative to straw. The chip is covered with fawn paper and a
layer of blue-black silk."
It looks like the chip strips (heh) are maybe 1/4 inch wide, and they're
woven together like a basket.
Dawn
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