Learn how to create a lightweight wired sinamay technique for adding expressive style, movement and bows to your millinery designs.
Contemporary Sinamay Course | Worksheet

Defy gravity by engineering dynamic embellishments that ascend elegantly with structured stability. Learn how to use lightweight sinamay to successfully add volume to your hat or headpiece as you follow Louise Macdonald’s creative and detailed instructions.
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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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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...

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...

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

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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