The anatomy of the Schirmmutze

**BenVK** · 01-09-2014, 08:17 PM

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**Espenlaub Militaria** · 01-09-2014 08:17 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 01-09-2014, 08:18 PM

by BenVK

Next time I have an authentic cap on the bench for restoration, I'll try and take some photos of the same areas to create a similar diagram if it's deemed useful?

Your readers take pleasure in your art and craft, as well as rejoice in your didactic skill. No one can say that the fashioning of knowledge about this very conflicted material is especially easy.

**BenVK** · 01-09-2014, 08:30 PM

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**Friedrich-Berthold** · 01-09-2014, 08:50 PM

which is to say the degree to which these things were hand made and have value because of it.

**HPL2008** · 01-09-2014, 09:45 PM

by Friedrich-Berthold

Marvelous anatomical lesson. Worthy of the great of the storied past. Well done.

I am not a cap collector, but this indeed the most interesting anatomical lecture since, well, I attended an actual one. Thanks to Ben for his efforts as the Vesalius of the cap world!

Also, this helps to illustrate some aspects of cap construction as outlined in period regulations that I had translated a while back in posts # 25 and 26 here...:

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/non-c...-3/#post376896

...without being completely certain whether I had actually interpreted the descriptions and tech terms correctly.

**BenVK** · 01-09-2014, 10:02 PM

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**Friedrich-Berthold** · 01-09-2014, 10:23 PM

Thanks to you both. Your roles here are a great boon to us all.

**Glenn66** · 01-10-2014, 03:02 PM

Sewing buttons on is remarkably tricky I have to say. When I have had cause to attempt this feat I usually go around and over and through in no particular order as many times as it takes to hold the button on then tie a knot in it...somewhere.

I dread to think what my attempt at a peaked cap construction would produce.

**HPL2008** · 01-10-2014, 04:00 PM

by Glenn66

Sewing buttons on is remarkably tricky I have to say. When I have had cause to attempt this feat I usually go around and over and through in no particular order as many times as it takes to hold the button on then tie a knot in it...somewhere.

Rest assured you are not the only one to apply this particular technique...