"My visit to “Hat Blocks Australia" by Ruth Connor.

Recently my husband and I planned a trip to Adelaide in South Australia, and I thought this might be the perfect opportunity to drop in on Darryll and Renee, the warm and amazing couple who make up Hat Blocks Australia.

We found Hat Blocks Australia in a sparsely populated area just outside…

Join Noeleen Kish on her millinery adventure to Royal Ascot!

Royal Ascot has been on my wish list for hat wearing events for such a long time and I was delighted to have the opportunity to attend ladies day this year. It just happened to be a relative's milestone birthday in London around the same time as Royal Ascot, making it a great…

As a milliner you have probably heard people say from time to time "Hats don't suit me!" Or something along those lines... but the truth is... hats are for everyone! It's simply just a matter of finding the right style!

As we all know there are more styles of hats than there are face shapes and so it only seems fitting that one compliments the other! In the first of a two part series we show the first three…

Black, white and red... Nothing screams classic elegance with a pop of colour louder than that powerful hue combination. Sure enough with those colours as the race day theme, the AAMI Stradbroke Races held at Brisbane's Doomben Race Track was nothing short of spectacular. 

By: Sophie Allport

True to it's…

Rustic corrugated iron sheds and pearlescent pink sunsets form the usual backdrop for Broome based milliner Felicity Brown's photoshoots. Late…

Two of our Hat Academy members attended the 20th anniversary Dubai World Cup and had a memorable time there last week.

Australian Milliner, Ana Pribylova flew from Cairns for her debut visit to Dubai. She was in transit for 24 hours but it was worth it all. What an experience it turned out to…

Create your own sand bag ready to hand tool each petal in the French Flowermaking Lessons. View this free video for full instructions along with a downloadable pattern.

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Milliners are multi-talented creatives and photography is often another string in our bow. Hatspiration Celebration applauds every members contribution in Hat Academy to create over TEN THOUSAND inspiring photographs of hats and headwear in all styles & genre! We asked ten top contributors in Hat Academy to choose their favourite hat photograph amongst the community pics, detailing the reason for their choice.

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Photo: Cessiah Henderson



Milliner and photographer Cessiah Henderson shares how to enhance the look and experiment with your photos.

Post-processing simply…

Photo: Cessiah Henderson



In this weeks Spindle feature we discover how to use composition and focus to best showcase your millinery. Take notes with our brilliant blogger Cessiah Henderson.…

The first of our Spindle learning series covers how to best capture your millinery creation with photography no matter your experience or camera, thanks to the talented Cessiah Henderson.…

Bring together a team of eight multi-talented Australian milliners and what is the result? Fabulous headwear for "The Great Gatsby"! We chat with Sydney milliner, Margaret Gill – one of the costume milliners, about her once in a lifetime opportunity to fulfil a milliner's dream.

How wonderful to be involved…