Course of Instruction
Length of course: Six months.
1. Practice: Shirring, tucking, cording, rolled hem, plain fold, milliner's fold, and cutting and joining bias pieces.
2. Making and covering buckles and buttons; wiring ribbons and laces; making hat linings and wiring hats.
3. Bandeaux: Wire, capenet, and buckram.
4. Wire frame construction from dimensions and models; making frames of buckram, capenet, and stiff willow.
5. Covering frames with crinoline, capenet, mull, maline, and soft willow.
6. Facings: Plain, shirred, and in folds.
7. Bindings: Stretch, puff, and rolled.
8. Plateaux: Plain and fancy.