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Yahoody

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Thanks! Starting? Naw, not in the for seeable future anyway. I just like making a few hats for myself and friends. I went through my hat supplies last night. I had ordered 100 liners a few years ago. Plenty of those left. And I still have a few uncut sweats.

Two of my hats needed new liners. So I got lucky :) Time to order some felt as winter is coming!
 
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I have ordered a few swatches of vintage silk Kimono fabric and then some cotton fabric with a vintage William Morris print. I will experiment with them and show pics when finished. I just received two vintage hats..a Flechet and a Banda (western) both had liners where the seam did not line up with the back of the sweat. In both case the liner seam was in the middle of the left side. Obviously meant to be that way as the imprint on liner was still straight and oriented as it should be. Curious as I have never seen that before.
 

Yahoody

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belfastboy said:
Do you do the gold foil print yourself or contract out?

You can order all kinds of colors, prints, logos and/or plastic seals in the crown of the liner. I went simple with the print and a mixture of solid colors, white, black and red. A good many high dollar custom western hats use a plastic piece in the top of the liner. I know why they do it but never made much sense to me. Kinda like a white hat liner in a hat you plan on working in daily.

I have a few in Salmon as well. Red and oddly, the Salmon, have been the favorites. My first decent felt as a kid in the '50s was a Resistol. It had a red liner.

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Thanks! Starting? Naw, not in the for seeable future anyway. I just like making a few hats for myself and friends. I went through my hat supplies last night. I had ordered 100 liners a few years ago. Plenty of those left. And I still have a few uncut sweats.

Two of my hats needed new liners. So I got lucky :) Time to order some felt as winter is coming!
Where did you source the liners? I make my own and imprint them with subliminal heat transfers, total cost about $2.50 each with the imprint. But if I could contract out and buy just one hundred at a decent price would save me a ton of time.
 

jlee562

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have you sewn them up yet? Let me know how they work for you. I have my logo and other materials and am just playing around. I am thinking of using the kimono silk on my women's hat line. I can market it as each having a unique liner.

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I've been looking for the slubbier, slightly heavier silks, which are technically less elegant than some finer silks, but the tensile properties are working out so far, no collapses. I've just been hand sewing. On the second one, I used the finished edge of the fabric instead of sewing an inside seam.
 

Rumad

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Those really look great man. I’ve wanted to try that too, I’m too chicken to pull one out of a hat to get shapes and dimensions.
 
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#2


I've been looking for the slubbier, slightly heavier silks, which are technically less elegant than some finer silks, but the tensile properties are working out so far, no collapses. I've just been hand sewing. On the second one, I used the finished edge of the fabric instead of sewing an inside seam.


At a glance I thought I was looking at a BSHW liner. Very nice.
 
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#2


I've been looking for the slubbier, slightly heavier silks, which are technically less elegant than some finer silks, but the tensile properties are working out so far, no collapses. I've just been hand sewing. On the second one, I used the finished edge of the fabric instead of sewing an inside seam.
I love #2. Stunning work.
 

jlee562

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Those really look great man. I’ve wanted to try that too, I’m too chicken to pull one out of a hat to get shapes and dimensions.

It's like a band aid....just rip it off! I've been thinking about how to make an uploadable pattern...would probably have to make a PDF. My oval top section is about 6.5" by 6" . The top edge is about 18.75" the bottom edge is about 24" . I traced it off a size 7 Stetson liner. If I remembered any geometry or had a protractor I would provide the arc, but alas...

At a glance I thought I was looking at a BSHW liner. Very nice.

Thanks! Bob actually has the first piece of silk I bought a few years back for the mystery hat that he's got on the bench. It's an idea I've been percolating for a while.

I love #2. Stunning work.

Thanks! This particular fabric got picked because I thought it would match Tim's oxblood sweats.
 
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I've been looking for the slubbier, slightly heavier silks, which are technically less elegant than some finer silks, but the tensile properties are working out so far, no collapses. I've just been hand sewing. On the second one, I used the finished edge of the fabric instead of sewing an inside seam.
Beautiful. Wonderful job!
 

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