Learn jewellery, fashion, craft and design at Designer Courses

This follow-on course allows you to develop your designs and skills in more depth. You will learn:

How to create a wire headband and use buckram
How to use fabrics and interfacing in your design
Blocking on a dolly
Using sinamay in free form and as binding
Options for working with parisisal straw

Dates:
3 Wednesdays, 24 June, 1 July, 8 July, 6.30- 8.30pm.
Cost: £105.00 materials £15.00

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Fashion hats - fabulous fascinators!

Have fun with feathers, fabrics and trimmings in the company of couture milliner Judy Bentinck, and pick up some theatrical gossip along the way!

This practical course is suitable for beginners, and will introduce you to a variety of techniques for creating small cocktail hats or headpieces to your own design. Materials are included. You will learn how to:

make your own fascinator base from scratch
explore design and the use of colour
work with millinery fabrics, veiling, combs and headbands
experiment with feathers, trimmings and traditional millinery stitches

New Autumn dates coming soon