International Millinery Forum – Wagga, January 2009

Image via Wikipedia The organisers of the International Millinery Forum to be held in Wagga Wagga from 17 to 22 January 2009 released an update of when information will be released. Registrations are set to open in six weeks time so mid-late July on their website http://internationalmillineryforum.com.au (please not this site is still under construction). [...]

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Book Review: 1,000 Hats, by Norma Shephard

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 [...]

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My favorite website for Millinery information…

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, [...]

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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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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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