Keep It Under Your Hat

Somewhere cold someone's searching in their closet for a woolly hat, and somewhere warm, someone's searching for their wide-brimmed sunhat. Somewhere uptown someone's searching for a fancy hat for a wedding, and somewhere downtown someone's searching for any-ol' hat. And if you search the Web, you'll find all hats of all kinds to buy. Sites that, if you're wanting to make a hat of your own, provide inspiration and ideas.

You'll find children's hats, hand-crocheted hats that can be colour-matched to your coat or sweater, and very specialised sites, such as the one for children's reading hats or talking hats that quack and croak, when a regular crazy hat just won't do.

Hats by Margaret are one-of-a-kind originals made of wired buckram covered with silk, velvet, vinyl, leather, lace, suede and other natural fibers, with linings and sweatbands. Those by Davyne Dial Millinery are whimsical and romantic.

There are large commercial sites such as Hats New York and Sandra Phillipps, which are for professional milliners, hat makers, and providers of supplies and equipment

You can go on a hatmaking course in Zurich, Switzerland (their course is also available on tape/book), or if you've got the virtual travelling bug, investigate the Stockport Hatworks Museum in the UK, the Museo della Paglia e dell'Intreccio in Florence dedicated to the craft of woven Italian straw hats, or the Bernstorff collection of miniature 18th and 19th century hats.

If you're passionate about hats and want to talk about them, visit the HatWaves newgroup in the HatParlor.

And finally, have a look at this great cartoon on how to make a cowboy hat...

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