Learning to Make a Fabric Covered Buckram Hat
by Lynne Taylor-Seavers, First published for the March/April 2006 issue of Finery One of the first millinery projects I ever worked on was a fabric covered buckram hat. As a matter of fact, I took the class at a GBACG workshop. It was my very first contact with GBACG and the costuming community that I now know and love, but […]
Buckram 101
by Lynn McMasters, First published for the November/December 2005 issue of Finery Buckram is an open-weave fabric of cotton or linen that is sized with watersoluble glue. In use for hundreds of years, today it is used in bookbinding, drapery pleats, mask making and hat making. In mask and hat making buckram is used as the substructure and generally covered with fabric. In […]
