Millinery Foundation: horsehair cloth
Sefar pillbox teaching sample for millinery class Horsehair cloth is not new to the costume industry, but I have seen it showing up for sale at millinery suppliers & heard from theatrical milliners using it as a foundation material for hat construction, so I have made a sample pillbox with it to share with my fall class. This material is sometimes referred to as filtration mesh or Sefar (a brand name) and it is often stocked in professional costume studios to be used for purposes such as crinolines and other floofy-skirt understructures. It is sold wholesale to industry as filter material for swimming pools and other liquid filtration applications, often in pre-cut sizes and shapes. Finding a vendor that will sell yardage has been a challenge, i n that they are used to dealing in much larger quantities (10,000s of meters) than we are typically seeking for a costume application, although not so much now that I’ve see it showing up by the yard from hatmaking supply vendor...
