[MR] I got the funk......hat

[Julia Windsor]

I used to do this sort of thing to cover ugly rigging when
I was in the Navy. In addition to the square knot, I
believe that there are clove hitches and rolling half
hitches used. If it's done right, it doesn't need a frame
inside.

Now I'm intrigued, I gotta see if I can still do it!

Julia


--- RoxyGreenstreet at aol.com wrote:

> Greetings!
>  
>      I believe the bar parts are clove  hitches, and I
> think the cap section 
> is something different also.  Maybe  tiny tiny knots,
> could be another stitch, 
> I want to do some research  first.  It could be mounted
> over a little frame 
> and then attached, with the  ropes sewn under it.  I want
> to look at bottle 
> covers some before I would  start.
>  
>      Square knots can't make the bar  sections, the
> physics don't lend them 
> selves in the flow of the project.   That is some sort of
> wrapping technique.
>  
>      There is a pipe cover in the Mariners  Museum that I
> want to take a 
> better look at, it looks a lot like the cap  section, I
> think that is going to be 
> the hard part.  I think more lines  could be added as the
> pattern goes along, 
> to make the hat bigger around the  head.  I think this
> hat is fairly tall.
>  
>      I would make a bunch of cardstock  bobbins, and use
> 50 weight or lower 
> linen Londonderry.  I would probably  start off a ring in
> the center of the 
> crown.  I believe the cap portion  covers a rough start. 
> I would work over a 
> frame, like a big coffee  can.  There could be a padded
> frame inside the lining 
> of the hat since I  think it would lack much shape.  I
> also think there is a 
> contrasting lining  that shows through the gaps in the
> knots.  The brim could be 
> knots placed  over a padded brim affair and then it looks
> stitched to the 
> hat, sort of like  some Italian women's headresses. 
>  
>      I think there are a lot of liberties  that would
> have to be taken to get 
> the effect, the hatters who made this would  have been
> very secretive about 
> their process.  (Heya, wes a gonna tella ya,  but then
> youse gots to sleep with 
> da fishes) but it is macrame, just a little  smaller.
>  
>      Hey James, why don't cha make your  own hat? 
> Heheheheheh.
>  
> May your threads never tangle,
> Rokse
>
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