Block foundation straw and cover a button shape with silk and other fabrics or use sinamay and sculpture with parisisal creating a different appeal.

LESSON PLAN: Cocktail Foundation | Wire and cover | Trimming and Lining | Sculpturing

Learn to add volume to style using a branching technique to create a shaped piece. Feature flat crystal flowers are taught together with how to add a simple base and add the comb. Complete your bead work with a Bird Cage or Bandeau Veil.

Create amazing large colourful flowers to adorn your millinery using your customised dyed and patterned silk abaca. Be inspired to venture into your unique flower creations.

Lesson Plan: • Flower Petals • Shaping Petals • Flower Varieties • Support On Headwear

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 ...

Brett Morley shares his skills to create a dramatic headpiece ready for the world stage. Learn how to use the quill in the design process and refine the binding of all components to execute a perfect finish.

Lesson Plan: • Lace Petal Preparation • Create Your Own Headband • Curling Spine Perfect...

Explore the vibrancy of the silk abaca colours as you venture into the sweeping ruffle trims and floral millinery designs. Each can be used as a complete headpiece or as a feature on your headwear.

Lesson Modules:
• Creating Ruffle Trims • Petaled Flowers • Autumn Flowers • Frangipani Designs

Start with a cocktail hat where you learn to wire and line after stiffening. Your tutor explains in detail how to taper the braid to weave perfectly flat. Learn to make a picture hat brim, boater hat with low crown and a Dior brim completed with a buckram crown.

LESSON PLAN: Cocktail hat On Bas...

Master milliner Diana Cavagnaro teaches you how to perfectly cover a simple buckram base which is then trimmed, lined and stabilised with elastic and comb to sit securely on the head. All the necessary hand stitching is explained to enable you to create the always popular fascinator for the races...

Lace and crinoline are a perfect combination for this upturned brim hat. Clients who love to add height when wearing their headwear will enjoy the delicacy of this freeform pleated crinoline brim hat.

Lesson Plan: • Design Upturned Crinoline Brim • Creating Lace Motifs • Adding Wire • Lace & Fea...

Discover how to make fascinator and headpiece bases in different shapes using different components plus tips to trim and line your headpiece to give a quality finish. Learn design principles and how to use fabric to co-ordinate with your clients outfit.

LESSON PLAN: Create a base in different...