[Madhatters] my brown felt tophat

David Stainton dstainton415 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 22:10:07 UTC 2010


Indeed Nan has told me about Lacis.
I'll have to go there this weekend to see if they've got
the silk and/or wool grosgrain which is seemingly impossible to find.
According to wikipedia it used to be made of silk and wool, however I am unable
to find a source online at all!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosgrain

I'm impressed with Britex! Four floors of fabric and stuff...
I didn't mind paying extra for black silk ribbon;
noticeably higher quality than the synthetic one I got from Discount
Fabric Outlet.
My tophat also looks pretty fancy with the addition of the chicken feathers. ;-)

I was thinking to sew brown trim; covering the edge of the brim.
What should I use for this? Yesterday I should have obtained the silk
or wool ribbon from Britex
to do this...

One of my coworkers works on the Syzygryd project at the TechShop and
suggested that
we could perhaps use a CNC mill to cut ourselves hatblocks. This would
probably be far
less work than traditional wood working techniques.

David


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried Lacis? I'm sure your lady knows about it.
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 13:44, David Stainton <dstainton415 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks!
>>
>> Last night I sewed the grosgrain into my hat and Nan steamed and
>> pressed the brim so that it is curved upward on the sides...
>> I was surprised to discover that the felt hardened after it was pressed.
>> Ideally I'd process the entire hat in a similar fashion to harden the felt...
>> I'm not sure how to accomplish this; perhaps Nan's industrial iron
>> could sufficiently steam the felt so that it hardens.
>>
>> I'm going to tack stitch the black ribbon onto the outside just above the brim.
>> The black ribbon I purchased for 50 cents at Discount Fabric Outlet
>> might not work well since
>> the bottom circumference might be greater than the top
>> circumference... I might have to use
>> grosgrain instead of the ribbon.
>>
>> I was thinking to go to this so called excellent fabric store in the
>> SF downtown:
>> http://www.britexfabrics.com/
>>
>> But according to their online store they do not have wool or silk
>> grosgrain; only rayon ;-(
>>
>>
>> David
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