Crazy Chip Bag Headpiece

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!

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Feathers

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 [...]

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Buying Millinery supplies on line

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 [...]

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Hat tutorials online

Image via Wikipedia I have been researching better ways to put together tutorials on making hats… The ones that I like the best are on the Instructables website… Here are two I found on hats. A girl pirate hat – I think this is quite a good design and the way the instructions are set [...]

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Making hats on youtube…

Image by wallyg via Flickr I didn’t expect to find much on youtube on making hats. I did, however, find quite a lot of interesting videos from milliners and videos on making hats. I have listed below the four I like the most. Louise Green’s Milinery – I liked this one because it showed what [...]

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