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feathers & fascinators
How to make simple hats that require
little or no equipment.
getting more adventurous
Making tiaras; eye-catching brims;
how to make silk flowers...
traditional couture millinery
Easy Sinamay Hats 1
Easy Sinamay Hats 2
Sinamay Hat 1
Felt Cloche Hat
Classic Hat
Finishing Touches 1
Sinamay Hat 2
Finishing Touches 2
improving your skills
Blocking silk, more ways with feathers, stitched strip hats, double brims...
reference books
Setting up a millinery business, a very useful guide to hat making materials...
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HollyMay Pickell
 
Sinamay Hat 2
Sinamay Hat 2  
Details
Price: £12.95 ($) (€)
Photos: 55 full colour photos
Pages: 35 double pages
Format: e-book what's this
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Brief description
If you want to make the most up-to-date hats, you’ll want to use sinamay, the contemporary hat making fabric. Unlike traditional hat fabrics like straw and felt, it comes in flat sheets by the yard (metre), so if you want to create an up-turning brim in this fabric you’ll need to learn the method explained in this ebook. As always with our publications, every step has its own photograph and instructions, so you won’t find it difficult at all. Choose a crown block and an up-turning brim block (one with a hole in the middle) and go for it! Up-turning brims are so flattering that they suit many different face shapes – and are great for weddings, (easier to get a kiss!) See more beautiful examples of the kinds of hats you could make below…

fantastic feathers   fantastic feathers   fantastic feathers

A beautiful hat by Alison Howitt, in black sinamay with blue trimming.

 

This vibrant orange and pink hat by Gail Smith looks very different, but the same method has been used.

 

Aashild Oma Sele creates yet another look by using a basket-weave sinamay for her brim and combining it with a silk crown – a very special hat!

   
     
       
         
   
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