Felt & Straw Blocking Workshops
Wayne Wichern (Burlingame) 1777 California Drive, Burlingame, CA, United StatesFelt & Straw Blocking Workshops
Wayne Wichern (Burlingame) 1777 California Drive, Burlingame, CA, United StatesPeriod Shakos and Peaked Hats – Jane Smith
Fullerton College 321 East Chapman , Fullerton,, CA, United StatesUsing buckrum as the base & a leather visor, you will be taught both traditional millinery hand sewing techniques along with modern machine work, to create a shako hat from your choice of designs. You will also learn how to create a feather plume or pompom. All of your supplies to complete the shako, trimmings […]
Classic Fedoras & Homburgs – Jane Smith
Fullerton College 321 East Chapman , Fullerton,, CA, United StatesThis class will cover how to stiffen and hand block traditional fur felt fedoras and homburgs using open crown blocks. We will create crown “creases” and “indents” by hand along with curled brims, clean cut brim edges and grosgrain edging by both hand and machine. A variety of hat band styles will also be explored. […]
Carving Your Own Hat Blocks – Jane Smith
Fullerton College 321 East Chapman , Fullerton,, CA, United StatesIn this three day master class, you will learn how to design and carve both crowns and brims from a high density polystyrene block. Your brims can be two sided, able to block on both sides, or single sided, based on your designs. The class includes all of your supplies and tools for creating 5 […]
FELT DRAPING
Deanna Gibbons Millinery 1364 Florida Street, San Fransisco, CA, United States"Make the free-form felt hat of your dreams" Learn free-form draping and hand sewing skills needed to create a soft draped felt hat that fits perfectly. Using steam and a basic head shaped block, students will learn to make a small or large brimmed hat of their own design and a variety of techniques for […]
Fedora and Bowler
Deanna Gibbons Millinery 1364 Florida Street, San Fransisco, CA, United States“Blocking the shape and draping the pinch” In this 2-day workshop students will learn to block a felt into a classic fedora or bowler shape using a 2 part hat block and customizing the hat with the hand draping method to create the crown shape of choice. Exploring many options for trimming, students will learn […]
By-Request Weekend
Deanna Gibbons Millinery 1364 Florida Street, San Fransisco, CA, United States“The first to sign up chooses the class!” Be the first to sign up and create a special workshop suited to your interests. Look at past workshops and let me know what type of hat making you are interested in. Once we finalize the details, I will send out another workshop announcement to the student list or if you have a […]
Straw Fedora and Boater
Deanna Gibbons Millinery 1364 Florida Street, San Fransisco, CA, United States“Blocking the shape and draping the pinch” In this 2-day workshop students will learn to block a straw hat into a classic fedora or boater shape using a 2 part hat block and customizing the hat with the hand draping method. Exploring many options for traditional trimming, students will learn to finish their hat with […]
Advanced Techniques
Deanna Gibbons Millinery 1364 Florida Street, San Fransisco, CA, United States“Design the perfect felt or straw hat for your wardrobe” This workshop offers the opportunity to make a hat by either hand draped or blocked method, in either felt or straw. Jumping off from skills gained in prior workshops students will come to the workshop with a design in mind that they would like to […]
Raffia HAT Making Class
Diana Cavagnaro PO Box 711836, San Diego, CA, United StatesWith Diana Cavagnaro This 2-day class will demonstrate the procedure for dyeing and plaiting raffia, which is, then hand sewn over polyurethane hat blocks. The inside of the hat is then finished with a Petersham ribbon or an optional lining. Kits can be ordered that will contain the raffia and polyurethane hat blocks. The blocks […]
Leather & Silk Flowers
Textile Study Guild of San Diego San Diego, CA, United StatesTutor: Galina Kofod Students will go through all the stages of creating flowers from silk and leather. This will include the preparation of materials, dying them, making patterns, assembling and finishing techniques. In this workshop, the students will have the opportunity to learn a famous Japanese flower making technique, Somebana. This enables the students to individualize each and every flower. […]
Straw Hat Making Class
Diana Cavagnaro PO Box 711836, San Diego, CA, United StatesWith Diana Cavagnaro This class covers the blocking of one straw hood or capeline. Bring your own block or use ours. In addition to blocking, we will deal with design, dying the straw, sizing, wiring, lining, and sweatbands. Go home with a finished hat. 10am - 4.30pm Alpine Hat Studio in San Diego For more info […]
Cloche Workshop
Deanna Gibbons Millinery 1364 Florida Street, San Fransisco, CA, United States2 DAY WORKSHOP “Design the perfect felt or straw cloche hat” This workshop offers the opportunity to make a 1920’s inspired cloche hat in either felt or straw. You will learn to construct a cloche shape hat by hand blocking and then further customize the simple shape with a hand draping technique. This workshops offers […]
FROM COAT TO CLOCHE – DIMENSIONAL TRIM WORKSHOP
Deanna Gibbons Millinery 1364 Florida Street, San Fransisco, CA, United StatesLearn to work with millinery felt to create dimensional decorative accessories to sew or pin onto clothing, shoes or hats. These lightweight shapes once embellished become sparkling accessories which can be moved from garment to garment. A variety of techniques including padded gold work and special stitching and beading patterns will be taught to create […]
FELT DRAPING WORKSHOP
Deanna Gibbons Millinery 1364 Florida Street, San Fransisco, CA, United StatesIn this workshop students will learn free-form draping and hand sewing skills needed to create a soft draped felt hat that fits perfectly. Using steam and a basic head shaped block, students will learn to make a small or large brimmed hat of their own design and a variety of techniques for finishing a felt […]