Reviews: Hat class bibliography, plus vintage knitting bonus stuffs

[labricoleuse]

The craftwork class i'm teaching this semester is a fairly broad introduction to millinery--it's challenging, in that it is aimed at production graduate students and presumes that those enrolled have advanced/couture sewing skills, but it also is designed for students who have had minimal or no hat-making experience. unluckymonkey asked me for recommendations

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[unluckymonkey]

OH you made my DAY! thank you thank you thank you for taking the time to be as thorough as you always are with things. The reason I read everything you write is because you are tremendously thorough as well as opinionated enough to get a feel for your subjects from a real in-the-mix artisans perspective. Mostly because you ARE in the mix. ;)
In my searches I found some helpful online references as well but I'm not at my home computer so I'll post you a link to them when I get back in case you're curious. Yeah yeah yeah!

You're welcome!

[labricoleuse]

...and thank you for the kind words about the blog!

And i'm definitely curious about what links you turned up, can't wait to see what you found.

On a side note, i definitely think i'm a work-aholic; i've been thinking about your query and have had this post brewing for AGES, but it's been so frustrating to have to deal with tech/fittings/opening/etc and be unable to just sit down and write it all out! So, what happened? I came down with the crud this weekend (first weekend off in...who knows), wound up staying home from work today so i wouldn't get all my coworkers and students sick too, and bang, here's the "leisure time" to write this post. Sad, i can't even languish with my mug of soup without putting on the costume-cap. Ha ha!

Re: You're welcome!

[unluckymonkey]

Here's what I've found and I've really enjoyed them.
http://vintagesewing.info/1950s/52-hmh/hmh-toc.html
http://lynnmcmasters.com/straw.html
http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/BOOKS/lowenhats/contents.htm
http://vintagesewing.info/1920s/28-mhd/mhd-toc-long.html
http://vintagesewing.info/1920s/22-m/m-toc.html
These have really helped me along. I'm usually rather poor so online books and resources have to go a ways for me.
Hope you can use something here or it can help someone else.
Take care,
Sammy

[ankhayra]

While I am replying: Great work you do, and thanks to trystbat, who pointed me here.

I often use decoration instead of garniture, but that's because garniture is a french word (I'm Belgian), and we use it for additions to food: "toast garni" would be a toast with a little salad, carrots and tomato.

[labricoleuse]

Thank you for the compliment!

It's interesting, the difference in connotations across geographical areas and different cultures.

Where i live (the American South), the word for an addition to food is garnish, whereas the latter part of the word garniture (the "-iture" part) has a non-edible connotation.

Decoration, however, is often used with respect to food (as in decoration on cakes and cookies) or physical space (i.e., interior decoration, decoration of a space for a party, or lawn decoration).

Fascinating!