Millinery (hat making and fascinators) courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

Come and make your own beautiful felt hat. Whether you dream of dreadlocks, your own festival hat, beret, or any other shape, you can come along and have a go at creating it. You will be shown how to design your own hat, working from a basic template, which you can then personalise by adding flaps, flowers, tassels, bobbles or any other decoration you can think of! Due to Covid, this course is now one to one, or for two people from the same household.

What we’ll do: On arrival, you will be greeted with a glass of bubbly and a tropical apron. Adorn your heads with beautiful flowers, create something delicate & demure or bright & colourful to wear at a hen do, baby shower, music festival, just for fun, or the love of Frida Kahlo. This creative workshop is perfect for hen parties and is suitable for beginners as I will be guiding you through the hands-on process of making your own beautiful crown, one step at a time. A fun and friendly...

Ideal for beginners and intermediate students, on this course Silvia will guide you in designing and making your own hat while using various professional techniques. The course is spread over 3 afternoons Friday to Sunday. Please note the first lesson is only 2.5 hrs long ( 2.30pm-5pm), while the following 2 will start at 1pm and end at 5pm. During this weekend you will learn how to: -Block a wool felt cone onto professional millinery blocks -Cut and shape your hat -Ribboning the brim -Decorating your hat with feathers and...

Fascinator Hat Workshop is also available to book Live Online. You will receive a material kit with all necessary materials. This one-day course will enable you to create your own fabulous fascinator hat and leave with the skills to carry on creating more. You’ll learn how to make a fascinator base, manipulate sinamay straw, use wire, work with veiling, and learn traditional millinery stitches. We will meet in my cozy studio in London. We'll start with a short introduction to hat making, different hat styles and materials. Then you will...

Virna loves to share her knowledge and passion for her craft and offers a range of workshops for those wishing to explore the world of millinery. Inspiring for all levels, whether as a beginner, extending your existing knowledge or just to try something new. On this two-day Felt Hat Workshop, you will learn how to block, shape and manipulate wool felt. You can choose to block a brimmed hat such as Fedora or Trilby. You will also learn how to wire a hat to ensure it holds its shape, how...

Have you ever heard of The North East textile technique of proggy or clippy? No! If you would like to learn a new craft, then this new craft kit designed by MHW Millinery contains everything you need to make your own tartan ruffle corsage style flower, using clippy – which is also known as rag rugging – techniques and also introduces you to some basic millinery ones too. The finished flower corsage is made from Lochcarron of Scotland tartan and measures 3.5 – 4″/ 8-10cm. It features a contrasting half...

On this two-day felt hat course you will learn how to block, shape and manipulate wool felt. You can choose to block a brim hat such as Fedora or Trilby or you can chose to block a smaller hat such as a pillbox, beret or fascinator. You will also learn how to wire a hat to ensure it holds its shape, how to curve a petersham ribbon and invisibly stitch into your hat. After blocking a hat you will proceed onto learning trimming and decorating. You will be introduced to...

In this one day workshop, you will be able to make your own cap from a choice of four styles. The 8-panel, peaked cap, known as a Newsboy or Gatsby Cap, this style is also very popular with Peaky Blinders enthusiasts. The Cadet style cap or the Trapper cap has cosy ear flaps. The ear flap is designed to hug the neck and pull in against the ears and when flipped up, it stays tight against the cap without the need for fasteners. Or the Captain style cap, also known...

In this class, each participant will make their own percher, cloche, or trilby hat from wool felt, in the traditional way of ‘blocking’ the felt around wooden hat blocks. A ‘Percher Hat’ is a delightful hat which is small enough to simply ‘perch’ on the edge of the head. This is the typical style of hat which you’ll find in the Sahar Millinery collections. Often, percher hats look quite vintage – akin to the pillbox hats of the 50s or structured beret hats of the 40s. However, depending on how...

Creating a bias strip with sinamay Rolling sinamay Making a wired base At the end of the lesson, you will have finished 1 fascinator- maybe even 2 – depending on your speed. However, the techniques you learn will enable you to create countless designs and styles. You will also be able to make sinamay roses and tulips. You will walk away feeling proud and accomplished with a deep sense of achievement – neatly boxed up in a pretty hatbox 🤗