Continued from yesterday's post, today we'll look at the steps left to finish the reproduction of a stylish 1920s felt hat from our vintage stock at PlayMakers Repertory Company. A reader over on this blog's Facebook page made the excellent point that you could do this project with one of those floppy felt hats you see popping up these days at ( Read more... )

It's about time for a tutorial, so how about an easy soft structure felt hat from the 1940s?

If you follow me on Instagram, you may recall this fantastic vintage hat from our stock:


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I'm giving up on Filecrunch.com resuming upload capabilities any time soon--they've been disabled for ages now--and uploaded my shoe rubberizing tutorial to Savefile.com. I like Filecrunch better, since they have no expiration on files uploaded and a nice tracking page for your files' downloads and such, so if they get back up i'll reupload it ( Read more... )

So many folks liked my sinamay straw tricorne that i promised i'd post more on the subject, so here you go: a super-easy DIY picture series for making your own straw tricorne, including info on how to do it as a no-sew project.

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One of the projects that our Costume Production and Technology MFA students must complete in their third year of study is a historical reproduction. They choose a garment from our extensive vintage and antique clothing archive (perhaps 10% of which is searchable online at the CoStar site[1]), study it at length, reproduce it exactly with new ( Read more... )

Rubberizing the soles of boots and shoes for stage productions is one of those recurring tasks that fall to the crafts department. A theatre company can save literally hundreds of dollars by rubberizing in-house rather than sending shoes out to cobblers for this service, provided there's a craftsperson on staff who can do it properly ( Read more... )

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Since we're rolling up into Opening Week (which means we only have work if there's any last-minute crises on the "holy crap fix this by tonight" scale), we're doing a week of tutorial presentations, where anyone with a particular field of specialty does a little how-to demo, limited to about 20 minutes ( Read more... )