Worried you live in an outlying village or town away from sufficient customers to set up a millinery business? Imagine living in outback Queensland, Australia and 1500 kms from the capital city of Brisbane. Such was the challenge for Sherilee Honnery of Hughenden. She made a decision to risk all…
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In collaboration with master block maker Darryll Osborne of “Blocks by Design”, Hat Academy is offering every student
who purchases a Course in the month of October a free mini block valued at $35…
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When Hat Academy tutor Elaine Mergard saw the beautiful clutch bags made by Bellinda Haase of Toowoomba she encouraged Bellinda to use her design and sewing skills in Millinery. As a…
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Many Hat Academy members recall their grandmother making hats and now it is their time to learn this Heritage trade. Miss Lauren has been wearing hats all her life and several years ago asked her grandmother to teach her. She loves going to church these days and…
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Gabriela Zapponiis the Creative Collection Director for the label ‘Casa Calto’ based in Argentina. Her Luxury handmade jewellery is now incorporated in unique headpieces whether for the discerning bride or for the latest feature for a New York Fashion and Lifestyle magazine. Together with Visual Art Director Matias Kritz they are building a…
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Erica Mitchell loves hats because ….“It’s the expression of a women’s soul!” She has been making hats since she was a little girl. Her family wore hats to church so it became a natural hobby. She would sit in her room for hours and would often take apart old hats to make something new but years later she…
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Leighanne Crocker makes couture and ready to wear hats of her own design as seen in this stunning garden party piece. She wants to inspire women of today to indulge in beautiful hats that ooze elegance and style. So if you're seeking to stand out from the crowd, embrace your unique features and style…
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A touch of pink is all that is needed to make a simple picture hat into something that co-ordinates with the outfit for a mother of the bride. Note the use of a fine straw piping in pink sinamay to add to the eye catching touch of colour. The basic brim is given a sharper look with a series of pleats on one side. USA milliner…
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Millinery is the perfect way ‘Victoria Jane Millinery’ can express a love of art into craft and design. Using print and embroidery and often inspirations from architecture, each headpiece is uniquely embellished. The unusual shapes chosen for blocking or hand sculpting are often based on the 1940s era…
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Creating a hat wearing culture in your own country is the challenge ahead of Sviatlana Bahdanava of Belarus in Eastern Europe. Not only is she helping clients to learn how to wear hats and fascinators but also where to wear them. This pillbox features one of her hand felted flower trims. Now…
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‘Mind Your Bonce' milliner Karen Geraghty of UK decided to enter the Milliners of Etsy competition with the style she loves mostly –…
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Appreciate the unique vibrancy and styling by UK milliner Lottie Sparks. Every piece is hand made with hand blocked felt, soutache beading, folded roses, knitted leaves, and cut feathers. Creating her own trims means the possibilities are limitless. This mask hat is titled “Fantasy Garden” and…
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Explore this spring collection by Bridget Early, a palette colour and florals.
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Pennsylvania Milliner Tiffany Arey creates Three–dimensional works of art that completely transform the outfit. This custom dyed sinamay hat with hand embroidered binding in cornflower blue is trimmed on the underside with flowers fashioned from hand painted ribbon in shades of white, periwinkle and dark…
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Katharina Lehrkinder from Austria is working hard to establish her own label at her shop based in Vienna. She offers bespoke millinery as well as a rent-a-hat-service. Millinery crossed Katharina’s path at Fashion School and she felt hats invited her into their world. GeorgeB Shaw once said, “Some…
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In the past few years, Latvian fashion has been experiencing true prosperity - well-known designers create stunning new works while new talents gradually take the stage on catwalks in Japan and USA. Their clothing and accessories combine Latvian traditions with the latest world trends. Hat Academy student…
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Join talented Award winning Millinery Tutor Amanda Macor as she shares her secrets on how to work with her passion, lustrous silk abaca.
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Melissa Glim regularly shares her hat photos with us all on Hat Academy but this one features Melissa herself wearing a special hat she created for a community parade in Vermont USA - “The Strolling of the Heifers” Like many…
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It takes a lot of planning and much courage to step out and set up a hat display at a Fashion Market. This was the step “Finka Mendocina” milliner, Bettina from California took to expand her market opportunity. With such a prominent sign and a pretty model to display her hats no wonder she has…
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Everything Shurie Southcott creates is a little bit Victorian but big in funkery. Why shouldn’t it be when you work as consulting milliner for a steampunk clothing store in California. How unique is this “Octo-Bowler" made from snakeskin Faux leather. No spot gluing in Shurie’s work as she was…
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