Learn how doubling your brim will add new millinery concepts especially if you use contrasting colours. All the practical tips are shared in this lesson.
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Learn how to create and trim striking cocktail hats sure to turn heads at a Gatsby party plus add a popular style technique to your millinery know-how.
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In this lesson you learn how to make leaves in 14 different ways. Leaves can be added to a trim with flowers or without. Learn how to wire leaves you make from sinamay, pari, silk organza or printed fabric to create a 3D effect.

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Learn how to attach & finish off the edge, ready to add the brim to complete your hat style. A well fitted covering over a dome crown is best achieved if made in three pieces using silk fabric. Taking measurements from your block you learn to draft a pattern in three pieces to fit closely to the buckram shape you have made. …

The Advanced Bundle is especially designed for those wanting to learn techniques out of the ordinary. Includes the opportunity to learn sculpturing to create Hatinators that stand out in the crowd plus it is a mix of traditional vintage methods like pillbox construction. With 7 1/2 hrs of tuition it is full of practical Millinery tips…

Learn how to accomplish inserting decorative shapes in contrast colours into the straw brim. Unique additions to an otherwise plain piece will make your hat stand out in the crowd.
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The use of fabric due to huge variety available will give you a marketing edge. Learn how to make a template from your block to make the pattern for the foundation and fabric covering.
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Be taught how to add elegance to your felt hat creations with these trim techniques. Due to the nature of felt with no weave it lends itself easily to reshaping & embellishing to make trims from scraps. Create flowers curled loops & bows even add stitching.
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With the Kentucky Derby at our heels, is your headwear ready? The Derby hat or Bowler hat is one of the most easily recognised hats with its turned up narrow brim. Brims are not meant to be boring but rather so creative to give the total hat a new exciting appeal. The Intermediate Level Bundle is stacked with concepts & techniques to give every brim a new dimension whether by…

Binding your brim is the first stage to add design to your hat. Learn to bind with satin or silk. Next add a fine piping to add more style. Lets widen the bind but keep it so flat & even. Learn the how to achieve a fine finish in all these variations, with a perfect join in two different ways.
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Learn the technique in Lesson 9, Redesign Feathers, on how to make your own feathers from fabric to co-ordinate with a clients outfit or your
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Fascinator and headpieces can be made in different shapes using different components. All the techniques are explained in detail plus tips to trim & line your headpiece will give a quality finish.
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Overlaying your sinamay straw with extra colour & fabric will make your hat or headpiece a one off as you apply individual creativity. Learn how to give these extras the perfect finish with the use of braid petit purl or rayon braid.
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Learn three different fabric covering techniques in this lesson. Buckram has been a favourite for milliners for decades but currently with fashion interest in vintage look dome crowns everyone wants to learn how to cover the crown using fabric.
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Learn how to transform biot feathers to add dimension and give style to a trim. Check out more feather techniques in Feather Trim Shaping lesson.
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This skill is a must as it is the foundation of shaping headpieces for all styles of millinery. Learn how to steam & shape straw to mould around the block then finish off the crown edge to retain the sizing.
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Visual texture holds more interest for the eye than does a smooth, unrelieved surface. We need to add texture in the trim to keep the textural balance to please the observers eye.
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Learn how to create Feather Flowers and several other creative feather techniques.

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Add elegance to your felt hat creations with these trim techniques. 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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