traditional couture millinery home page. how2hats.com. Everything you need to know about making hats.

Can't decide which book to get? Choose from our complete list of hat making books:

How to make simple hats that require
little or no equipment.

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

Blocking silk, more ways with feathers, stitched strip hats, double brims...

Setting up a millinery business, a very useful guide to hat making materials...

HollyMay Pickell

traditional couture millinery

Going to the races? Or a wedding? You'll need a traditional couture hat then! Here you'll find out how to make hats in Sinamay (the easy way and the traditional way) as well as hats from straw. Finishing Touches 1 and 2 explain how to make those all important trimmings. Happy hat making!

Easy Sinamay Hats 1 A very popular book – how to make eye-catching trimmings, transforming an ordinary hat into a stunning masterpiece. Free patterns included. More...	Easy Sinamay Hats 2 A new and intriguing way to create a hat brim – without a hat block! We demonstrate 3 different possibilities, and illustrate a further 8 different types of hats you can make in this way. More...	Sinamay Hat 1 An excellent book to start you off in hat making. The step-by-step guide to making a hat from the material of choice for high fashion hats. (For the decorations, you'll need Finishing Touches) More...

Felt Cloche Hat No millinery workroom is complete without the skill of felt hat making. Tis book describes how to block a simple felt cloche hat. An excellent choice for your first hat and a great book to start you off in hat making. More...	Classic Hat How to make a hat which will be a winner wherever it is worn. Straw is always in fashion! Includes photographs of a further 8 different types of hats you can make in this style. More...	Finishing Touches 1 A very popular book – how to make eye-catching trimmings, transforming an ordinary hat into a stunning masterpiece. Free patterns included. Follows on from Sinamay 1. More...

Sinamay Hat 2 Learn a new method of blocking which you can use with all kinds of sinamay, especially the more loosely woven 'window' or 'tangle tuft' sinamay. More...	Finishing Touches 2 Carrying on from Finishing Touches 1 above – more eye-catching trimmings for hats – this time with designs for four different hats. More...

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