Wide Brim Hats

Wide Brim Hats

Discover different ways of creating wide brim hats, from classic statement styles to contemporary tailored designs, exploring brims, fabrics, and patterns in depth.

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Wide Brim Hats
  • The Essential Saucer Live Lesson

    5 items

    LAST DAY TO WATCH: NOV 8
    Create a pleated Jinsin saucer hat using simple materials, with no hat block required. Taught by beloved favourite tutor Catherine Ellen, you’ll learn essential techniques including wirework and tailored finishing, to design striking millinery with versatile trimming opti...

  • Classic Statement Hats Course

    5 items

    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...

  • Exploring Brims

    Explore how to redesign your basic brim by adding or taking away to give a basic brim a sensational look.

    LESSON PLAN: Insert extras | Spots & shot methods | Patchwork or pleat | Cut & curl | Extend or double up | Crinoline Brims

  • Flat Patterns

    Diana Cavagnaro has mastered how to make a Boater Hat without using blocks. Her detailed instruction on how to make a flat pattern for both the flat tip crown and the brim will enable you to construct a sturdy buckram frame for both crown and brim. Using selected fabric to cover this hat gives so...

  • Fabric Covered Brims

    Your clients will love the millinery styling that results from covering the foundation brim with your chosen fabric.

    LESSON PLAN: Foundation preparation | Stitched brim | Edging creatively | Covering with textured fabric

  • Swiss Straw Course

    4 items

    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...

  • Contemporary Tailored Hats Course

    4 items

    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...