1st Edition
Period Reproduction Buckram Hats The Costumer’s Guide
By Crystal G. Herman
Copyright 2016
240 Pages
354 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
354 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Whether you’re in a professional or a community theatre, part of a historical re-enactment, or teaching costume construction, a well-made hat provides a much-needed finishing touch to a costume. Period Reproduction Buckram Hats: The Costumer’s Guidebook is your one-stop resource for learning how to recreate historically accurate buckram hats. Each chapter is devoted to the construction of a... Read more
- Preface
- Taking Accurate Head Measurements
- General Patterning Techniques
- Deshret
- Steeple Hennin
- Truncated Hennin
- Capotain
- Bergere
- Gainsborogh
- Poke Bonnet
- Mad Hatter
- Top Hat
- Romantic Bonnet
- Coal Scuttle
- Toque
- Pill Box
- Hand Stitches
- Covering and Trimming Techniques
- Altering and Using Feathers
- Methods of Securing a Hat
Biography
Crystal G. Herman has been the Assistant Professor of Theatrical Costume Design at the University of Texas at El Paso since 2008. She received her MFA in Costume Design from The Ohio State University. She has designed costumes professionally for nationally recognized theatres such as the Utah Festival Opera Company and the Weston Playhouse in Vermont. Over the past twelve years Crystal has designed and constructed costumes for a variety of other theatres in the Southwest. Her research and teaching concentrate on costume design, costume rendering, costume history, millinery, and costume crafts.
