Hat Academy's Blog – January 2013 Archive (20)

ISOLATION NO PROBLEM

Living on a small island off Spain, in the Meditteranean has challenges for budding milliner Vanessa Inarejos Gil. Despite the language challenge she is adding to her skills through Hat Academy lessons. Vanessa knows her local…

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ON THE MOVE

Moving her Atelier from Forte die Marmi, Tuscany to Viareggio, an Italian sea resort city was a huge shift for milliner Elisabetta Garine but has proved worthwhile. For over 20 years, modern & crazy shapes with style have been her special ability to attract customers.
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HAT CLASSES - INSERT, SPOT, SHOT

By inserting and adding extras to the straw we create a new look that gives your hats individuality . Use these concepts in Brims, Hatinators & even cocktails.
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ADAPTATION

If you were commissioned to adapt a cloche to a cap or vice versa would you have thought of this design? A Hat Academy member exclaimed "Ahhhh Perfect!! " Maggie Mowbray from Edinburgh has shown ingenuity with this felt design …. "incredibly elegant" says another member. It is the simplicity in the flow of the shape that creates such exclamations and hopefully this piece is keeping a head warm in…

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HAT CLASSES - FELT TRIMS

Due to the nature of felt with no weave it lends itself easily to reshaping & embellishing to make trims from scraps. Create leaves, flowers curled loops & bows even add stitching.
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DISCUSSION: WHAT'S YOUR STUDIO LOOK LIKE?

What's your millinery studio look like? How do you manage your work and storage space?
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MARKETPLACE: Bell Shaped Crochet Cloche

Cloche in the traditional bell shape in pink crochet cotton and hand blocked on a vintage hat block to resemble the 1920s flapper style. Crocheted flowers adorn the right side, and the brim is lightly wired to retain shape.
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MAKE OR BREAK THE OUTFIT

Cumbria UK milliner Tracy Wells ensure her hats make the outfit. Millinery is her passion and she recently captured the fashion catwalk with her headwear complimenting the designers winter collection. Preparing for such parades takes effort but working with a fashion designer will help expose…

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HAT HINTS - FACINATOR LINING

Creating a perfectly fitted lining for your Headpiece or Fascinator is an essential finish.
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MARKETPLACE: 1940s Perch Tilt Hat

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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Sinamay Color Card

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. …

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HAT LESSON: SWATHED CROWN & BRIM

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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HAT NEWS COLLECTIVE

A new place to share hatter news or info on millinery happenings!

Feel free to share on topics including millinery, fashion, vintage, collecting, quotes or your creative interest. Maybe you have been featured in the media, have a new or interesting photo or gallery, or perhaps have a video or link you wish to…

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MARKETPLACE: BROWN PAISLEY

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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HAT CLASSES - COVERED DOME CROWNS

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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FELT FEDORABLE

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.…

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Swiss Style

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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Add a little Sparkle

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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Petal Profusion

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…

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QuillnAros Unique Feathers

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…