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This antique text contains a detailed and beginner-friendly guide to creating bonnets, with special emphasis on drawn bonnets, straw bonnets, the colouring and lining of bonnets, and transparent and widows' bonnets. How to Make Bonnets is the perfect book for those with an interest in the designing and manufacturing of bonnets, and constitutes a great addition to any collection of antiquarian hatmaking literature. Chapters contained herein include: 'On Drawn Bonnets-with flat and raised grooves-and Capotes in general'; 'On the most eligible method to be adopted for the lining of Straw and other Bonnets'; 'On the making and cutting of Tight Bonnets with Due Attention to Economy'; 'Observations on the Adoption of Colours Best Calculated to Suit the Complexion'; 'On Transparent Bonnets'; and 'On Widows' Caps'. We are proud to republish this book here complete with a new introduction to the subject.

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• Full title: How to Make Bonnets - A Milliner's Guide to Sewing Bonnets with Information on Drawn Bonnets, Straw Bonnets, Colour and Lining of Bonnets, Transparent
• Author: Mary J. Howell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56
• EAN: 9781447412823
• ISBN: 1447412826
• ID: 12153785
• Publisher: Morrison Press
• Weight: 84 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 3 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2011

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