Simply Sinamay
Learn the essential techniques to transform sinamay into stunning hats, hatinators, and floral designs.
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Basket Weave Sinamay Live Lesson
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Last Day To Watch: Dec 12 | Anél Heyman demonstrates how to achieve unique and expressive designs as she shares her approach to working with this flexible material. This lesson unlocks creative freedom and helps you develop stunning headpieces that will impress on race days and at weddings.
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Straw Flowers
Women love the floral touch to hats and headwear as they give such a feminine look. Learn to use sinamay straw or parisisal straw to create eight different styled flower trims. Each flower will give your hat or fascinator an individual personality.
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Blocking Basics
Traditional millinery blocking methods are taught using wooden millinery blocks to create a sinamay crown and brim. You will learn several ways to bind edge of brims and design bands to complete your first hats.
LESSON PLAN: Block crown and brim | Wire edge | Binding options | Connecting crown...
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Hatinators
Create this sculptured combination of a hat and fascinator. Learn to block basic Hatinator shape then discover how to remould, twist, pleat, splice, braid with the addition of textiles to give a totally new look.
LESSON PLAN: Styling and sculpturing with sinamay | Pari and crinoline | Adding f...
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Fashioned Straw Flowers
Amongst the new sinamay straw roses and lilies we create a large sculptured Parisisal rose. The larger flowers will lend themselves to be the dominant feature of your trim or fascinator. Learn to add wire stems to the daisies so you can give the trim a three-dimensional effect.
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