Hats For Dolls & Bears Course
Adapted from traditional millinery methods, Master Milliner Elaine Mergard teaches creative miniature hats for dolls, teddy bears and beloved pets. Learn how to make a variety of hats using supplied patterns and hat blocks you can make yourself. With nine different styles, each hat will add to the costuming giving your dolls and bears a fresh personality.
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Picture Hats
Learn to create Miniature hats for dolls and bears using millinery techniques and materials to give a quality finish. Using fabric to match their outfit your new hat whether a droop brim Picture hat or an upturned brim style will add an attractive finish for your latest doll or bear.
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Poke Bonnets
To give your doll or bear a Vintage look create a 19th Century Poke Bonnet with either a silk brim or a braid straw brim. Learn to colour tint your fabric, straw and trims to match.
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Custom Cloche And Sun Hats
Give your Doll or Bear that classic style with a silk Cloche Hat. Using braid straws and sinamay, create straw brims to go with flat or dome crown. Learn to make your own hat blocks and brim shapes for adorable Summer hats or Boaters.
Lesson Modules:
• Classic Cloche • Trimming Options • Prepar... -
Felt Hats And Traditional Beret
Venture into making simple hat blocks to shape several felt hat styles - a cheerful Top Hat, a Felt Cloche, Fedora or Cowboy Hat and a Parisian Beret using natural or synthetic felt.
Lesson Modules:
• Felt Top Hat • Felt Beret • Mini Hat Block
• Fedora, Cowboy & Cloche