MILLINERY – THE ART OF HAT MAKING

The course aims to:

Provide you with more knowledge, skills and confidence
Provide extended practical sessions to develop the skills required to create two hats using two different materials (Autumn Term: Felt and Straw and Spring Term: Buckram and Sinamay)
Enable you to learn and apply your creativity, understanding and technical skills to your personal millinery practice
Enhance your understanding of the processes and techniques used in millinery.
Enable you to produce two hats using new techniques and processes developed through practical demonstrations and experimentations
Develop your understanding of how to use the studio and millinery equipment safely and creatively
Work alongside fellow students and share practice in order to develop awareness of the possibilities and limitations of your own ideas and creations
Develop your practical experience and understanding millinery techniques including time management
Enable you to explore industry standard millinery equipment, developing your confidence and understanding of millinery equipment and best practice
Raise your awareness of ethical, social and cultural issues related to millinery

This course is ideal for complete beginners to the art of hat making, or for those with some previous experience who wish to further their skills amongst like-minded students.
The course is aimed at students who have little or no previous experience, or may have some experience and wish to consolidate their understanding with lots of practical hands-on experience.

A basic sewing kit including paper and fabric scissors
Small snips
A thimble (metal preferable) than fits your middle finger
Millinery hand sewing needles of various sizes – a mixed pack of 3-9
Household pins (these are thicker and shorter than dress makers pins)
Dress making pins
Thread
Tailors chalk