The World of Millinery: 5 Classic Books on Hat Craftsmanship
Classic Manuals on Hatmaking, Design, Materials, and the Millinery TradeBy Harry Inwards, Watson Smith, John Thomson, Gene Allen Martin, United States Tariff Commission
Length14h 52m
About this audiobook
The World of Millinery gathers five classic texts on hat craftsmanship into a rich documentary record of an art that joins design, dress history, handwork, and commerce. Moving between practical instruction, technical observation, trade-oriented analysis, and cultural commentary, the volume illuminates the making of hats from materials and trimming to form, finish, and market circulation. Its range reveals millinery as more than ornament: it is a craft shaped by changing fashions, industrial production, gendered labor, and international exchange. Detailed accounts of techniques and the wider structures governing the hat trade give the collection unusual breadth. The contributors represent complementary vantage points on millinery: writers and observers of craft practice, commentators attentive to fashionable consumption, and the United States Tariff Commission, whose presence situates the subject within the economic history of regulation and global trade. Together, these voices place hatmaking at the intersection of artisanal knowledge and modern commercial systems. Their varied approaches evoke the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world in which specialized handcraft persisted alongside standardization, importation, and expanding consumer markets. This volume is recommended for students of fashion, material culture, design history, and economic life, as well as for makers drawn to historical technique. By bringing disparate texts into conversation, it offers readers a rare opportunity to study millinery as both a practical discipline and a revealing social language.
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Length14 hrs 52 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Treatise on Hat-Making and Felting
2A Treatise on Hat-Making and Felting
3Descriptions of Furs, Wools, Hair, &c.
4Shaving.
5Make Your Own Hats
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6Make Your Own Hats
7FOREWORD
8CHAPTER V
9CHAPTER IX
10Straw Hats
11Straw Hats
12CHAPTER I ORIGIN AND CLASSICAL HISTORY
13CHAPTER II COMMERCIAL RISE AND GROWTH
14CHAPTER III STRAW PLAIT—METHOD OF PREPARING THE STRAWS
15CHAPTER IV STRAW HOODS—METHOD OF PREPARING AND OF WEAVING THE FIBRES
16CHAPTER V STRAW PLAIT AND PLAITTING
17CHAPTER VI DYEING
18CHAPTER VII BLEACHING
19CHAPTER VIII BLOCKMAKING
20CHAPTER IX HAND AND MACHINE SEWING
21CHAPTER X STIFFENING
22CHAPTER XI BLOCKING BY HAND
23CHAPTER XII BLOCKING BY MACHINE
24CHAPTER XIII FINISHING. POLISHING. TRIMMING. LINING.
25A LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
26The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing
27The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing
28PREFACE
29LECTURE IV
30LECTURE VIII
31LECTURE XI
32Abridged Catalogue
33(Pottery, Bricks, Tiles, Glass, etc.)
34Men's Sewed Straw Hats
35Men's Sewed Straw Hats
36Introductory
37APPENDIX
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