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I was in a Michael's the other day, rejecting the plastic flowers they sell, and the cashier had never heard the word millinery before. I mean, she was probably 22 and Michael's is a corporate chain, but if the craft-store people don't know that word then probably most people don't.
I also, not at Michael's, bought cage netting for millinery purposes. It's cheap plastic, which is all I could find unless I bought online (and potentially received cheap plastic in the mail anyway), but the best part is the only cage netting I could find had little puffy balls patterned into it, which on examination turned out to be 1" lengths of white pipe cleaner, folded and twisted into the netting at intervals. So I spent the morning picking pipe cleaner bits out just now. At least it was only twists, and not unpicking stitches or something.
In the process of color-matching thread, I went into the bobbins my grandmother must have wound 40 years ago (when she bought the sewing machine now mine; I never knew her to sew) and discovered thread, like most things, was more stout back then, with a silkier feel. So that is what I am using to tack bias tape into the band of the straw hat. (Very carefully; the hat is vintage. I'm actually tacking the bias tape to the stitches that hold the had together.)
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I also, not at Michael's, bought cage netting for millinery purposes. It's cheap plastic, which is all I could find unless I bought online (and potentially received cheap plastic in the mail anyway), but the best part is the only cage netting I could find had little puffy balls patterned into it, which on examination turned out to be 1" lengths of white pipe cleaner, folded and twisted into the netting at intervals. So I spent the morning picking pipe cleaner bits out just now. At least it was only twists, and not unpicking stitches or something.
In the process of color-matching thread, I went into the bobbins my grandmother must have wound 40 years ago (when she bought the sewing machine now mine; I never knew her to sew) and discovered thread, like most things, was more stout back then, with a silkier feel. So that is what I am using to tack bias tape into the band of the straw hat. (Very carefully; the hat is vintage. I'm actually tacking the bias tape to the stitches that hold the had together.)
I have moved mostly over to Dreamwidth. Please comment there if you can.