Creating a perfectly fitted lining for your Headpiece or Fascinator is an essential finish.
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This lovely little perch hat is blocked from a replicated vintage block and oh so darling! It is made of velour fur felt and trimmed with handmade velvet roses, finished with a dotted veil. The brim is wired and hand stitched to achieve a smooth finish.
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Colour co-ordination is essential when designing headwear with your client. Nine times out of ten they purchase the outfit firstly, then come to the milliner requesting you to match the straw. The best way is to use swatches of straw available here from The Feather Shop at a minimal cost. The Feather Shop will also be offering colour cards for their feathers, veiling and crinoline later this year. …

Fine fabrics such as chiffon, organza or georgette drape softly over a hat foundation. Learn to swathe fabric & secure invisibly to give a feminine old world look to crowns,brims or both. What you create in fabric can also be achieved with sinamay.

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Brown fur felt hat with silk paisley band. This is a very unique profile for a ladies' hat. It has a snap brim in a fedora/trilby style and features a high round crown. Vintage-inspired, though not a historical reproduction of a specific time period.
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Learn how to cover small dome crown in silk using 3 piece pattern, fit the panels together on the buckram base.
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This rich olive green felt fedora is a real head warmer but reflects the past season of autumn with golden oak leaves and a selection of acorns and berries. Avid hat maker, Annabel owns a boutique hat store in Beverly, UK  and is currently busy with felt hats in all shapes and sizes. Her everyday range of wearable berets, fedoras and trilbys are most popular.…

Swiss milliner Anastasia of Zurich loves to create stylish cocktail hats. This emerald green cocktail hat with hand tooled roses reflects the green hills of Switzerland. View her collection with different styles of hand made flowers.
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Christmas is not the only time we can add a little sparkle in our lives as portrayed in Georgina Heffermans Headpiece. This could also be worn as a wedding piece and co ordinated with pearl jewellery or wedding dress trimmed with pearls. Georginas background is a decade as a fashion stylist but has discovered her real passion – millinery.
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With a return to floral trims Milliner Leone Nowland has created a cocktail hat trimmed with a collection of petals in shades of dusky pink and mulberry. This is a novel concept and a solution how to utilise flowers which do not sit well individually as a trim. Leone lives in a small western Queensland town and wishes she discovered the Art of millinery years ago but now is the right time with the greatest resurgence in headwear since the…

QuillnAros artist Ellen B Kahn creates one off hand marbled feathers. As a freelance artist she has worked with Museums in Washington and Virginia but now is devoted to this amazing artistry using feathers from her own aviary. It has all developed from her love of caring for birds especially parrots. These…

Wishing all Hat Academy Members a Wonderful Christmas. Thank you for being a part of the Hat Academy family and for your contribution to make this possible. Have the Best Hatty Year in 2013 as we look forward to greater creative ventures. Academy…

Can you recall the headwear in the Nicole Kidman film "Moulin Rouge". These pieces were the work of award winning Milliner Christine Thompson, who lives in the picturesque Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. With 18 years experience in Costume Headwear for Opera, Theatre and Musicals no wonder her fashion Hats and headpieces display a perfect finish using fabric as a covering for the foundations shapes.  To work in…

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Chic Bibi Label from Montreal , Canada welcomes you to their website - "Each face has its glitter; let us help you discover your own…" How flattering is this yellow hatinator and to create it that way note what has been added to create a one-off look - the pleats + tucks + space. Brilliant in colour & design.

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Using fabric to cover your clients hat crown will co-ordinate the hat with the outfit. Nothing else makes the statement so clearly -"I have been to a milliner". Learn how to make a template from your block to make the pattern for the foundation and fabric covering. The use of fabric due to huge variety available will give you a marketing edge.
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Rita McVinnie has added more styles to her Hat Academy profile which includes her new look website. She has a  range of styles, heavily influenced by 1920's fashion and the flapper era. If you find yourself taken by the wardrobe and costumes of Downton Abbey then these hats are sure to appeal to your taste.

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