Design handcrafted open crown felt hats with Master Milliner Lina Stein, blending traditional hatting and contemporary millinery to create timeless Fedora and Trilby styles. Learn essential custom shaping and brim detailing techniques, guided by a signature grid system for precise crown indentati...

Hat Blocks are an essential part of the millinery creative process. Learn to create classic shapes or freeform contours using low cost materials often found in the studio. Whether an experienced milliner or a beginner, these techniques will allow you to tailor unique designs for your clients.

Bring your ideas to life with 15+ hours of comprehensive millinery techniques to extend your repertoire and develop a range of creative styles. Learn something new or refresh your skills as you join Master Milliner Elaine Mergard with over 50 years of hat making experience. With over 100 techniqu...

Expand your creative design skills in millinery by exploring freeform sculpting methods under the direction of Sydney Milliner, Jane Stoddart. These techniques will make this dramatic style a favourite with your clients. Parisisal straw, buntal straws and crinoline each offer their own unique tex...

Make a bold statement with bespoke feathers, adding a new dimension to your next headwear collection. Renowned milliner, Ian Bennett of London has mastered feathers as an art and sculptural form. Learn all his detailed techniques on how to add colour variation and reshape each feather for a drama...

Parisisal is a quality fibre with a close weave that results in exquisite millinery creations. Trained by Stephen Jones in the 80's, your award winning tutor Liza Stedman, unlocks the technical secrets of working with parisisal to produce a perfect couture finish for your headwear. Create a strik...

Join talented award winning milliner and tutor Amanda Macor as you learn to understand the nature of this lustrous millinery component. Develop unique techniques to innovate your own creative headwear and add dramatic styling to your headpiece for the next Fashions on the Field event.

Contemporary turbans have been embraced as a fashion statement by women worldwide. They can be adorned with convenience and comfort, so your clients will feel elegant in this trans-seasonal headwear. Learn from Sydney Milliner, Jane Stoddart, how to make Turbans with stylish detail using your cho...

Glamorous lace will add a new level of elegance to your overall look in headwear. Learn from Master Milliner, Brett Morley of Melbourne how to create refined silhouettes in lace to create a sensation on the bride’s big day or as your next Fashions on the Field race day entry. In this Course Brett...

Redesign classic fabric hats into a signature collection under the direction of Liza Stedman. Follow step by step instruction with precise tips to ensure the perfect result as you sew with effortless accuracy. The master patterns are interchangeable to create a Trilby or Fedora as well as a tradi...

Learn all the fundamentals of working with fur felt hoods and capelines with Waltraud Reiner. Whether you're an experienced milliner or a newbie looking to build up your skills, you're sure to pick up some great new techniques in this course. Hand stitching and edge finishing is explained in deta...

Leather is a luxury product which adds class and quality to your millinery style and is suitable for year round fashion. In this course, led by experienced tutor Jane Stoddart, discover techniques and practical knowledge for blocking and sculpting leather, completed with leather trims.

Whether you are looking to turn your passion for millinery into a business or increase sales for your current millinery business, this course will help establish a commercial strategy through a variety of tutorials, practical examples and worksheet exercises. The series is hosted by acclaimed Mil...

Intrigue your customers by dyeing your millinery materials to create unique bespoke headwear. Your passionate tutor Amanda Macor takes you step by step through the dyeing process and safety essentials. Add colourful patterning to your Silk abaca to make an oversized “Flower Dreams” headpiece. Lea...

Discover a unique range of flowers to add to your headpieces and hats. This course teaches you how to use a variety of straws and materials to make gorgeous flowers with range of techniques to complement your millinery style. Create 28 unique floral techniques that require no additional tools. Le...

Flowers are the true beauty of nature and a favoured trim on headwear. Through this set of lessons of French Flower Making techniques you will learn how to tool your stiffened silk to create your own beautiful lilies, blossoms, roses, poppies and more. Tuition to enable you to create nine unique ...

Master the skill of working with Swiss braids to create contemporary or vintage millinery styles including pillbox, cloche, Dior and Boater Hats. Throughout this Course Elaine shares all her tips and techniques to help you shape these exquisite straws into headwear. The variety of texture and col...

Master milliner Diana Cavagnaro from San Diego USA, is excited to share all her hands on methods to create four different styles of headwear. Learn to make a tailored boater hat and an elegant picture hat based on buckram using flat pattern methods. Winter style is all about a comfortable felt ha...

Bridal millinery is a part of all milliners work. Expand the styling you can offer through techniques taught by bridal specialist, Suzanne Madden. Learn all her techniques and practical tips to create stunning headpieces using Swarovski crystals and pearls all on a wire frame base or comb. BoHo c...

Colours are very important in our lives as they directly influence our emotions. Learn a variety of tinting techniques to add a fresh uniqueness to your millinery range. Unleash the creative artist within whether you are tinting millinery flowers, adding patterns to straw or transforming trims in...

Creating your own felt using merino fleece opens up a new world of self expressive millinery creativity. These classes are a great resource designed for beginners and skilled to understand and develop the art of felt making. Everything is explained by your tutor Wendy Bailye and you are instructe...

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 th...

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