Basic Millinery for the Stage

Basic Millinery for the Stage

Author: Tim Dial

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Whether a beret or brimmed, straw, felt, or cloth, a pillbox or cone-hats can define a time and place, be it on the street or on stage. In this practical workbook, Tim Dial takes readers through the process of design and construction of hats, using specific exercises to create basic kinds of headwear that can easily be adapted to different historic periods. Learn about measuring and patterning, using tools, and achieving apparently contradictory goals-hats that are theatrically appropriate, but also strong, durable, and efficient to build. Tim's book incorporates these special features essential to hat making: a modern-day perspective highlighting contemporary tools and skills clear instructions and safety notes for use in or out of the classroom progressive exercises that make it easy to explore and expand on techniques a focus on working with buckram, straw, and cloth-staples of the milliner's art plentiful high-quality photos that guide readers through each project. Take advantage of Tim's tips, techniques, and philosophies-some traditional, some familiar but improved, many totally new, all very doable. Then explore your own artistry.


The Costume Technician's Handbook

The Costume Technician's Handbook

Author: Rosemary Ingham

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2024-03-11

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 1478652829

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Since its first publication in 1980, The Costume Technician's Handbook has established itself as an indispensable resource in classrooms and costume shops. Ingham and Covey draw on decades of hands-on experience to provide the most complete guide to developing costumes that are personally distinctive and artistically expressive. No other book covers the same breadth of necessary topics for every aspect of costuming, from the basics of setting up a costume shop to managing one and everything in between.


Period Reproduction Buckram Hats

Period Reproduction Buckram Hats

Author: Crystal G. Herman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-09-07

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 1317702905

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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 particular hat, beginning with a historical image and followed by an list of the exact amount of fabric, tools, and materials needed and the estimated time to complete the construction. Every chapter contains a brief historical background on each hat, a pattern, step-by-step instructions, process photographs, and ideas for altering the pattern to fit your unique production. This book not only provides instruction for the exacting reproduction of historic hats, but it also guides and encourages you to alter patterns and techniques to create your own designs. The final chapters outline general millinery principles that can be applied to almost any hat, allowing you to customize your project.


The Chronicle of Hats in Enjoyable Quotes

The Chronicle of Hats in Enjoyable Quotes

Author: Ida Tomshinsky

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1479799092

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This is a standard reference for anyone who is interested in the history of essential fashion accessory – the hat. The hats always were used to protect, to express identity, to express identity, and to attract or to influence others. Main developments in the timeline of hats from ancient past to modern present, including the phenomenon of the must-have accessory covering the top of the head.


Introduction to Production

Introduction to Production

Author: Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1317211766

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Introduction to Production: Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage defines the collaborative art of making theatre and the various job positions that go into realizing a production. Beginning with an overview of the art and industry of theatre, the book shows how theatre has evolved through history. The book then breaks down the nuts and bolts of the industry by looking at each professional role within it: from the topmost position of the producer down to the gopher, or production assistant. Each of these positions are defined along with their respective duties, rules, and resources that figure in obtaining these jobs. Each chapter offers exercises, links to videos and websites, review quizzes, and suggested readings to learn more about the creation and production of theatre.


Basic Hat Patterns

Basic Hat Patterns

Author: Brett Ours Drager

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780966907742

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Basic millinery instruction on flat pattern hatmaking with illustrations and 29 pull-out hat patterns: including brims, crowns, sectional crowns and berets.


Tiara's Hat Parade

Tiara's Hat Parade

Author: Kelly Starling Lyons

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807579483

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2021 Christopher Award - Books for Young People WSRA Children's Literature: Picture This 2021 Recommendation List Penn GSE Graduate School of Education, The Best Books for Young Readers of 2020 Black Caucus of the American Library Association BCALA, 2020 Best of the Best Booklist Read Across America, Picture Book of the Month March 2021 A mother-daughter story about celebrating a special fashion tradition. Tiara has a gift for storytelling; her momma has a gift for making hats. When a new store opens that sells cheaper hats, Momma has to set her dreams aside, but Tiara has an idea for helping Momma's dreams come true again.


Historic Costume for the Stage

Historic Costume for the Stage

Author: Lucy Barton

Publisher: Baker's Plays

Published: 1935

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13:

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Costume styles include Egyptian, Roman, Greek, early Christian and Biblical, Gothic, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Restoration, Georgian, Romantic, and Fin de Siec̀le.