Beginners Millinery 2 with Sally-Ann Provan (monthly)

Advanced Beginner’s Millinery Course 2, 5 full-day sessions over 5 months

£850 (including materials)

SATURDAYS 10am-4.30pm at the Edinburgh studio, with a 30 minute break for lunch.

SESSION DATES 2026 :

Sat 24th Jan

Sat 21st Feb

Sat 7th March

Sat 28th March

Sat 25th April

course runs 1 day a month for 5 months, inclusive.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

This course covers the following:

Making a sinamay saucer hat,

Finishings, edgings, and fitting a saucer hat for the head,

Hand blocking a one-piece felt hat in a shape of your choosing (cloche, fedora, bucket hat, boater etc)

Learning manipulation and making trimmings with felt,

Blocking and learning basic techniques with veiling,

Hat finishing techniques – wiring, attaching trimmings, making and fitting headfitting ribbons, attaching elastics and combs.

At the end of the course you should have gained the knowledge detailled above, and have a finished sinamay saucer hat and finished one-piece felt hat.

SKILL LEVEL:

This course is for people with some basic millinery experience and follows on from Course 1.

If you haven’t done Course 1 – WE ARE HAPPY FOR YOU TO JOIN COURSE 2, if you have basic millinery skills (you should know how to block a pillbox on a hat block and use blocking pins).

You will also need some basic hand sewing skills (how to start and finish hand sewing, running stitch, and back stitch).

Choose from a wide selection of colours of materials and different types of feathers, to design and create your own unique headwear. You will learn how to manipulate the materials to create different designs.