Couture Millinery Master Class-Parisisal Straws and Sinamay

Course details

If you are interested in Millinery as a profession or simply want to completely immerse yourself in the world of hats, then this intense Workshop is for you!

Your rollercoaster ride into the Millinery world will take off with making a Sinamay head piece or fascinator, then you get more technical and expand your knowledge by designing and making a straw hat that would be suitable for any fancy wedding or race meeting. The final piece of your course will be an elaborate Saucer hat.

Topics covered;

under my expert guidance, you will learn how to;

• recognize which style of hat would suit different people
• design your own creation , measure and cut and manipulate Sinamay
• recognise what material to use to achieve a certain look/ effect
• achieve a beautiful headpiece that can be embellished with colourful feathers and beads.
• you will be, using a special milliner’s straw- Parisisal/ Sinamay
• design a basic shape of the 3 hats
• shape straw by blocking over some of my many rare and amazing wooden blocks using traditional Millinery methods taught for generations.
• You will learn a selection of couture Brim edge finishes and trimmings
• put the final touches to your work and make a vintage style lining