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Horse Hair and Glue ?
- Thread starter msm007
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I don't glue mine. I have used a hat pin to secure one but usually the tightening of the band serves to hold it on very well. I do know some folks use fabric/craft glue to attach ribbons & liners but I won't. If I don't stitch it on, it doesn't get attached to a quality felt hat.
frussell
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Simple stitch
I don't know one stitch from another, but I've sown on dozens of hatbands on cowboy hats over the years. I usually take out the liner (optional), use regular thread and a simple sewing needle and loop around one strand of the horsehair or other material, then back through the same hole. Tie it off inside the hat, repeat in one or two other places, should stay just fine. I hate glue on hats, especially in the heat I live in. Good Luck. Frank
I don't know one stitch from another, but I've sown on dozens of hatbands on cowboy hats over the years. I usually take out the liner (optional), use regular thread and a simple sewing needle and loop around one strand of the horsehair or other material, then back through the same hole. Tie it off inside the hat, repeat in one or two other places, should stay just fine. I hate glue on hats, especially in the heat I live in. Good Luck. Frank
ScottF
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msm007 said:
I have a few horsehair hatbands - I just put them on and tighten them. It's nice to be able to switch them out easily.
rlk
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Agree with Scott. I have a few and they seem to tighten and stay on just fine as long as you don't find yourself upside down. In which case the hatband may not be of primary importance.ScottF said:
Brad Bowers
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I always stitched mine on, just to be safe.
Brad
Brad
majormoore
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Same here on my own hats I always place a few stiches to hold it in place,,
Also saw a hat on time that had used a straight pin and push thru the hat band and into the hat, once in side the hat he folded the pin over real nice and tight, worked real good and I never saw those pins in the hat band on the outside, I would use this some time only on a horse hair band.
Mike
Also saw a hat on time that had used a straight pin and push thru the hat band and into the hat, once in side the hat he folded the pin over real nice and tight, worked real good and I never saw those pins in the hat band on the outside, I would use this some time only on a horse hair band.
Mike
frussell
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Upside Down
If you put your hat on a flat surface like a bar or table, standing on its crown like a lot of us cowboy hat wearers were taught, your hatband sometimes comes off. I've lost a few good horsehair, rawhide and tooled leather hatbands over the years because they weren't stitched on. Then again, I wasn't just wearing them out on the town or to go line dancing, I was working (and playing) in them, and sometimes they got knocked off or blown off. The ones I really cared about got stitched on, easy to cut the thread and replace if I change the band. I've dusted myself off and found my hat many times over the years, only to be grateful for that little loop of thread that kept the band attached to the hat, sometimes hanging by it, off its perch around the crown. Frank
If you put your hat on a flat surface like a bar or table, standing on its crown like a lot of us cowboy hat wearers were taught, your hatband sometimes comes off. I've lost a few good horsehair, rawhide and tooled leather hatbands over the years because they weren't stitched on. Then again, I wasn't just wearing them out on the town or to go line dancing, I was working (and playing) in them, and sometimes they got knocked off or blown off. The ones I really cared about got stitched on, easy to cut the thread and replace if I change the band. I've dusted myself off and found my hat many times over the years, only to be grateful for that little loop of thread that kept the band attached to the hat, sometimes hanging by it, off its perch around the crown. Frank
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