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"This book will inspire you to create individual headwear, showing you how to block hats and headpieces. finishing them with handmade trimmings. Filled with step-by-step sequences and inspiring photographs, this practical book offers detailed instructions for making hats and headpieces in felt, fabric and straw."
--Sew Today Mag (Feb 2011)
--Sew Today Mag (Feb 2011)
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This is a guide to creating your own personalised headwear. The author shows in step-by-step detail how to block classic shapes such as cloche or trilby and then transform them into numerous hat designs by adapting the brim and crown, giving them different trimmings, and so on. There are detailed instructions for making gorgeous hats and headpieces in felt, fabric and straw. This is followed by a chapter on making specialised trimmings, including dyeing, shaping, arranging and attaching feathers, making fabric flowers, and using beaded and stitched embellishments to finish of the hat. The book includes a number of projects and over 120 templates to help in designing the hats. The book is highly illustrated with both step-by-step sequences and inspirational photographs.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sarah Cant, has written a very easy to follow book on making hats. What I liked about this book is that it really does cover all the basic millinery skills, from millinery stitches, wiring, working with buckrum, felt and straw; including sinamy, warp and weft awareness, and pinning correctly. As a tutor at Kensington and Chelsea College, she is aware of the problems a student faces and explains everything straight forwardly, step by step. Instructions are given for making a ribbon rouleaux and a template is included for various flower decorations. The hat designs given are the basic shapes that include cloche, trilby, coolie and mini beret; all classic shapes that can be altered and manipulated for a more original design. A very practical and extremely helpful book for aspiring milliners.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a well written, well illustrated (with photos of each step) book that provides a really good introduction to millinery. As an advanced millinery student I have also found it helpful as a reference guide.
If you are interested in millinery, or would like something to refer to when you're a little stuck on the next step, definitely pick up this book! I've had it for a week and a half and have already used it a dozen or so times.
Good pictures with thorough steps. Really can't recommend enough!
If you are interested in millinery, or would like something to refer to when you're a little stuck on the next step, definitely pick up this book! I've had it for a week and a half and have already used it a dozen or so times.
Good pictures with thorough steps. Really can't recommend enough!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Like the other reviewers, I do love this book. It has some brilliant ideas and there are simple instructions followed up with photos of how to do it. BUT, to make the hats you need hat blocks. These range from £50 to £80 a piece. Then there is the brim block and the materials. Please be aware. All the hats are made from scratch using hat blocks. Great if you are on a millinery course and you have access to them. Not good if you are at home - as far as I am aware, no one hires them out. Still love the book.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great if not a beginner
I have found this book incredibly helpful. Ive done two short courses so have had materials, techniques and hat form shown to me (at beginner level). Read more
Published 9 months ago by mangomoon
dissapointed
the synopsis says: over 120 templates
NOPE
it DOESN'T.
This book is for people who have enough money to buy all the SPECIALIST equipment and materials this book... Read more
NOPE
it DOESN'T.
This book is for people who have enough money to buy all the SPECIALIST equipment and materials this book... Read more
Published 12 months ago by A. Groves
hats
I was really looking forward to this title as I loved the Karen Henrikson hat book which I found accessible to all levels of students and had something to learn for the more... Read more
Published 16 months ago by collette
Made abuut hats
Thinking about trying something new always makes me smile -the outcomes aren't always the same. This book really helped bridge the gap of having lots of ideas and making them... Read more
Published 17 months ago by itsgoodtotrynewthings
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