Leather Bandeau & Halo Crown

Learn how to block these 2 on-trend Hat Blocks and create multiple styles or looks using a combination of traditional millinery skills and Niav's own unique tips and tricks.

These tips have been gathered throughout Niav's many years of experience as a Milliner and Tutor.

Learning how to make simple patterns will save you so much time and fabric. Learning the correct techniques for removing the memory from wire before reshaping will save you endless heart-ache!

You will use so many of the techniques shown in the this workshop repeatedly in other millinery projects.

This workshop will show you how to:

• Prepare your block
• Prepare the leather/which leather to use/how to check before use
• Measure, cut, remove memory and shape the wire
• Attach the wire using a specific stitching technique
• Make patterns for each of the blocks
• Make 2 different types of lining and patterns for each
• make leather and tulle flowers and attach them