In this class, you will learn how to make a beautiful felt cloche hat featuring a wired, self-rolled edge. Follow the whole process, from steaming and blocking, to rolling the brim, to completing the hat with embellishments and head fitting.

Diana Cavagnaro has mastered how to make a Boater Hat without using blocks. Her detailed instruction on how to make a flat pattern for both the flat tip crown and the brim will enable you to construct a sturdy buckram frame for both crown and brim. Using selected fabric to cover this hat gives so...

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Learn how to perfect dyeing feathers to bring excitement to wild or commercial feathers. Customise your feathers including colour gradation, tinted edges or cobwebbing, giving your new headwear a dramatic look.

☰ Lesson Chapters:
• Feather Fundamentals • Dyeing Feathers
• Co...

Leaves as a trim concept can give a unique look. Create an assortment of different leaves using materials so they can be used to compliment a beautiful flower or as a trim feature.

LESSON PLAN: Straw leaves | Silk and fabric leaves | Felt leaves | Ribbon and wired leaves

Understanding types of Felts and how felt is manufactured is detailed by your tutor Diana Cavagnaro before you commence blocking a felt hood with a turned up brim. Diana teaches you how to block the crown and brim all in one using a flange brim. After you have made the lining learn how to attach ...

Create your own unique flowers by learning age old French flower making techniques and give a more personalised feminine touch to each piece.
Patterns: https://hat.academy/resources

LESSON PLAN: Stiffening Basics | Make a Petalled Rose |Construct a Cluster Rose | Create Blossoms

We create exciting Hatinators, Fascinator plus Boater and Cloche styles in this lesson. By sculpturing and adding extra components to our Swiss braid creations we give our designs contemporary styling.

LESSON PLAN: Sculpting And Wiring Hatinator | Rosette On Crown Top | Straw Cloche | Checkered...

Learn how to make a silk abaca turbans using various draping techniques and joining different colours. Discover different finishing techniques like twists, knots, and curls to create unique styles. Explore the versatility and beauty of silk abaca in creating elegant and fashionable headpieces.

Covering a base with silk abaca can be a challenge but tutor Amanda Macor shares the most effective time saving methods including preparing a base, stiffening techniques and finishing.

The focus of any flower is the centre as the eye looks directly at the middle then follows outward to peruse the petals. Learn various methods of creating interesting centres to your flowers using stamens, or beads or treasures from your craft box.
Patterns: https://hat.academy/resources

Using classic millinery techniques create pillboxes as a contemporary headpiece by adorning with intriguing trims and alluring veiling. Master how to cover your foundation using fabric perfectly.

LESSON PLAN: Pillbox Foundation | Wire and cover | Create a pattern from the block | Attach trims an...

Sculpting with the bias weave of crinoline and buntal straw mats is a simple way to make dramatic headwear. Learn detailed hand stitching instructions on how to prepare textiles to ensure your sculpted styling is secure and stable. Each piece has a uniqueness as you discover to freeform each mate...