Create elegant wide brimmed hats by shaping woven buntal straw without the need of hat blocks. Under the renowned guidance of Master Milliner Louise Macdonald, discover creative techniques of manipulating the bias weave and strength of the straw to readily hand shape your design. Combine a divers...

Classic meets contemporary. Complement millinery designs with the distinctive feature of bias sinamay. Discover how to add a transparent extension following the circumference of a blocked hat, or hand sculpt an elevated sweep to combine with a beret headpiece. Louise Macdonald instructs in detail...

Louise Macdonald has mastered traditional cockade trims and teaches you how to adapt for contemporary styled headwear, whether for a saucer hat, halo headband or trans-seasonal headpiece. Discover an intricate and practical system to ensure each fold is precise to bring the piece together to crea...

This contemporary interpretation of the classic Breton Hat adds height and elegance as it highlights the face. Learn from acclaimed Milliner and Tutor, Sophie Allport with her detailed block free system for creative wirework including a Dounut headpiece variation. Adorn in your choice of transluc...

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...

Discover inspirational techniques for sinamay straw under the direction of one of Australia's leading Millinery Educators and Master Milliner, Louise Macdonald. Once you understand how to manipulate this versatile material you will master designing luxurious trims for your headwear. Complement th...

Saucer Hats are a popular millinery style as they suit all face shapes. Through mastering the flexibility and strength of the buntal straw, Master Milliner Louise Macdonald teaches you how she has innovated a technique to create saucer styles with out using traditional blocking methods. Louise in...