Hatmaking
Appearance
- "Hatter" redirects here. For other uses, see Hatter (disambiguation).
Hatmaking is the designing and manufacture of hats.
Notable hatters
- Jacob Hutter (d. 1536), founder of the Hutterites.
- Thomas Duffet (fl. 1673–1676), an Irish milliner known for his work as a playwright and songwriter
- Rose Bertin (1747–1813), the French milliner and modiste to Queen Marie Antoinette
- Richard Sharp (politician), 1759-1835, Fish Street Hill, London.
- Anna Ben-Yusuf, a German-born milliner and teacher based in Boston and New York
- Caroline Reboux (1837–1927), a Parisian milliner and fashion designer
- Simone Mirman, a Paris-born milliner based in London
- Gerard Albouy (1912–1985), often known by the name Ouy, a French milliner
- Margaret Manny, a milliner in colonial Philadelphia who made flags for the United States during the American Revolution.
- Lilly Daché
- Mr. John (1902–1993), an American milliner
- Mary Quant, who had a career with a couture milliner
- Ellen Louise Demorest (née Curtis) (1825–1898), a milliner widely credited with inventing mass-produced tissue-paper dressmaking patterns
- Sonia Greene, a milliner who bankrolled several fanzines in the early twentieth century.
- Judy Bentinck (1952-), the wife of Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, a couture milliner based in Central London.
- Barbara Feinman of Barbara Feinman Millinery in New York City's East Village and "stars" of the "moulded straw, the feather, and the veil" Prudence, Prudence Millinery who currently makes hats for Vivienne Westwood and many other world famous designers, Philip Treacy[1]
- Stephen Jones in London
- Hélène de Saint Lager, a milliner from France[2]
- Nick Smith is a British milliner
- Rod Keenan is an American milliner who was born in Great Bend, Kansas on July 3 , 1968
- Luke Song is a milliner from South Korea
- Alice O'Reilly, an Irish Milliner known for her work in My Fair Lady having made Audrey Hepburn's famous hat at the Ascot Races, as well as hats for the Irish president's wife and fashion designer Jan Kelly.
- James Lock & Co of St. James's Street, London (founded 1676) currently holds royal warrants for providing hats to HRH the Duke of Edinburgh and HRH the Prince of Wales.[3][4] The Bowler hat was first designed at Lock & Co in 1849.
See also
Notes
- ^ Meredyth Etherington-Smith Mad for hats; Big hats, little hats, silly hats June 14, 1997 The Independent
- ^ Hélène de Saint Lager Official website
- ^ see Whitbourn, F.: 'Mr Lock of St James's St Heinemann, 1971.
- ^ http://www.lockhatters.co.uk/history.aspx
External links
- All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume
- 18th Century millinery
- Popular Science, November 1941, Pulling Hats Out Of Rabbits article on modern mass production hat making