Fig. 221.—Cut the hat after this pattern.
Make the Peaked Hat
out of stiff brown paper, cutting it like [Fig. 221], and pasting it together like [Fig. 222]. Cover the hat with some of the green cambric, allowing a cape of the material to fall from hat to shoulders at the back ([Fig. 223]). Get three or four quires of moss-green tissue paper, cut it into strips six inches wide and cut each strip into rather coarse fringe, leaving a solid strip for heading at the top, two inches wide. Beginning at the bottom sew the fringe around the cloak, allowing it to reach just to the edge of the cloth.
Fig. 222.—Paste it together like this.
Above the first row of fringe, and overlapping it, sew the second row, bringing its lower edge within three inches of the bottom edge of the first row.
In this way put on row after row of fringe, always overlapping it, until the cloak is entirely covered, then cover the hat and its cape in the same manner.
Take a light wooden hoop—one of the kind the children roll on the pavements in “hoop time,” and, turning the edge of the cloak up once, fit the hoop in the fold and hem the edge over it. This will hold the cloak out firmly at the bottom and it should hang smooth and straight from the shoulders with a generous lap where it closes in front.