If you are looking for hat making or millinery inspiration this book is for you. When I ordered it from Amazon I must admit I didn’t expect it to be quite so good. It is sort of a visual history of hats and millinery. The pictures in this book are extremely well taken; this makes [...]
Image via Wikipedia I just thought I would put up a quick post to share with you my favorite website for Millinery information. This is a vintage sewing: http://vintagesewing.info This site contains a number of different vintage millinery books. The books have been copied and indexed onto the site. These books are from the 1920′s, [...]
I found this hat on Etsy and just thought I would share the inspiration. It is designed for Etsy Milliner, Boring Sidney. The Etsy site can be found here: BoringSidney :: Crazy Chip Bag Headpiece What great recycling!
Feather Print from Fairie-ality, originally uploaded by geishaboy500. Until I went to Dita Feathers in Sydney I didn’t realise that there were so many different types of Ostrich feathers. The male feathers are bigger than the females, the mating feathers even bigger – In fact they were huge. Then of course there are left and [...]
Image by Vermin Inc via Flickr Living in Canberra there are not many options for buying millinery supplies, sure you can buy fabric from spotlight or lincraft and some proper millinery lining from addicted to fabric, but sinamay and felt or straw capelines or hoods, even proper grosgrain ribbon is hard to find. Unless I [...]