New project- 1850's Spoon Bonnet

[izodiea]

A few weekends ago as a Birthday present, my dad payed the fee for me to take a Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild millinery class. The class was focused on two styles of spoon bonnet, 1850-60's. The class was taught by Lynn Taylor. This is the same teacher/ class where I made my 18th C. Berge last year.

I was inspired by this surviving bonnet (from 1840):


So for my fabric I took some black moire I had left over from a coat I abandoned a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...anyway. I managed to mostly finished the frame, and I did all of the mulling. I still have to sew certain parts of the fabric on before I can fully finish connecting the two "halves" of the hat.











I have thought about trimming a little bit. I would like to get some wide taffeta or moire ribbon for a large bow like the inspiration. I also have some very nice twisted black cord to trim the edge. For lining I have some grey/mocha silk I think might work. I had originally wanted to make the hat black (so it would coordinate with everything) but Lynn said black linings tended to make people look sick.

That is all I got for now. This is a project I will probably for work on for awhile :(