This is the perfect course for beginners or those wanting to take their sinamay skills to the next level. On this course: • You will learn how to block a small button hat using the traditional method of hand blocking with pins and steam. • You will learn how to finish the inside of your hat with petersham ribbon. • You will create samples of trims including sinamay lilies, roses, leaves, bias strips, swirls, curls, free form shapes and bows. • You will learn…

This is the perfect course if you have always wanted to make a variety of fabric and sinamay flowers to adorn your hat, bridal headpieces or corsages. On this course:: • You will create paper patterns for all your flowers to take home and use • You will learn how to create a variety of silk/organza, velvet, sinamay flowers and leaves using traditional French flower making tools including, • Roses • Poppies • Leaves • Peonies • Lilies • You…

with Leonie Shelton

This is a unique course for brides and bridal designers focusing on creating a vintage inspired bridal headpiece but the skills could also be transferred to non bridal headpieces using a different choice of coloured silks On this course: •You will learn how to create a small base for you vintage inspired bridal headpiece. •We will show you how to cover your base with silk for a professional finish. •Using a variety of beads you will learn how to embellish your headpiece. •You…

with Leonie Shelton

with Leonie Shelton

Your festival wardrobe will be complete with this fun floral hair vine. Trail it through your hair or wear it as a headband.  make a hair vine with millinery wire basic millinery techniques for binding wire make a ribbon tassel

This course is a fantastic opportunity for those who are new to millinery and want to acquire a basic understanding. On this course: • You will be given a overview of millinery materials, techniques and styles • You will learn how to create basic sinamay trims including loops, swirls, bows, fans and folds • You will create a design using your skills and finishing your design with elastic, band or comb • You will learn which different hat shapes work for your face…

with Leonie Shelton

With Judy Bentinck

Level: suitable for beginners What you’ll learn in this workshop: ❀ painting silk and lace with silk dyes ❀ creating beaded butterfly body ❀ backing silk and lace with thin silk ❀ shaping butterfly wings with millinery tools❀ assembling and finishing the butterfly Price £110 pp including all the materials, the use of tools, tea/coffee and a light lunch Book at https://presentperfectcreations.com/product/silk-lace-butterfly-headband-workshops/

with Leonie Shelton

With Judy Bentinck

Create a hat and a bag in a two day workshop with Scottish Milliners Meg Lowe and Shona Crozer at a beautiful location in the heart of the Scottish Highlands. Suitable for complete beginners and novices alike. Materials (wool tartan and Harris Tweed), along with components for a bag is included in the price, along with a delicious, locally sourced lunch and hot beverages and snacks on tap. Contact Meg for information and booking meg@thestudio.uk.com 07780684407

Level: Intermediate*** What you’ll learn in this workshop: ❀ making the stiffening solution for leather flowers ❀ stiffening and shaping petals and calyxes by hand ❀ backing leather leaves with fabric ❀ using a pair of tweezers for shaping rose petals in several ways ❀ shaping petals and leaves with millinery tools ❀ assembling the roses in different sizes and putting them together into a corsage Price £110 pp including all the materials, the use of tools, tea/coffee and a light lunch Book at https://presentperfectcreations.com/product/leather-rose-spray-workshop/ ***PLEASE NOTE…

with Leonie Shelton

This is the perfect course for those who have a taste for Millinery and want to expand their knowledge of millinery techniques and create headpieces using sinamay. On this course: • You will be given a comprehensive overview of millinery materials, techniques and styles • You will block a sinamay shape ready to be adorned • You will create a flat headpiece base with sinamay • Trims will be taught dependent on previous experience and the requirements of the group…

Level: beginner What you’ll learn in this workshop: ❀ making the stiffening solution for leather flowers ❀ stiffening and shaping petals and calyxes by hand ❀ making leather foliage ❀ using  a pair of tweezers for shaping rose petals ❀ shaping petals and leaves with millinery tools ❀ assembling the rose ❀ making a brooch and finishing it with a brooch pin   Price £110 pp including all the materials, the use of tools, tea/coffee and a light lunch   Book at  https://presentperfectcreations.com/product/beginners-leather-rose-brooch-workshop/