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Saucer Buntal Hats Course

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Regular price $115.00 AUD

DESCRIPTION

Saucer Hats are a popular millinery style as they suit all face shapes. Through mastering the flexibility and strength of the buntal straw, Master Milliner Louise Macdonald teaches you how she has innovated a technique to create saucer styles with out using traditional blocking methods. Louise instructs you in detail to give a perfect sinamay finish that your clients will admire.

TUTOR

Louise Macdonald has been making hats for well over 25 years and her signature style often features fluid hand sculpted straw trims and shapes creating unique adornments for the head.

Louise trained in London, UK as a theatrical milliner making hats for productions such as Pride and Prejudice and House Of Elliot. Since returning to Melbourne Australia in 1995 she began making fashion pieces and now her millinery year is dominated by the Melbourne Cup.


Over the years, Louise has taught at various tertiary colleges, presented at international workshops / conventions and offered millinery courses from her Melbourne studio.

SUPPLIES

Suggested Supplies:

🧵 Materials & Tools
• Saucer Buntal Hats Course
• 1m Sinamay
• 1 Buntal Mat 16”
• 19 gauge wire
• Polystyrene display head
• Quilting pins
• Wire cutters
• Plastic clips/pegs
• Sewing kit

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WHAT YOU GET

• 2 creative on-demand lessons
2 hours of comprehensive video tuition
• PDF Worksheet

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LESSON PLAN

SAUCER HAT FUNDAMENTALS
Once you discover how to prepare your buntal mat, continue to hand mould the saucer shape stabilising the form with the wire. The binding you will create can be a feature of your trimming and perfecting this is essential to ensure an outstanding finish.

Lesson Modules:
• Buntal Basics • Brim Shaping
• Sinamay Binding

SAUCER HAT STYLING

Stiffening will add an eye catching sheen to your hat’s appearance while giving strength and securing the shape. Style your saucer in either of two designs attaching to preferred base ready to trim with the look your customers will love.

Lesson Modules:
• Circular Binding • Brim Stiffening
• Saucer Finishing • Base & Trim

Saucer Buntal Hats
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DESCRIPTION

Saucer Hats are a popular millinery style as they suit all face shapes. Through mastering the flexibility and strength of the buntal straw, Master Milliner Louise Macdonald teaches you how she has innovated a technique to create saucer styles with out using traditional blocking methods. Louise instructs you in detail to give a perfect sinamay finish that your clients will admire.

TUTOR

Louise Macdonald has been making hats for well over 25 years and her signature style often features fluid hand sculpted straw trims and shapes creating unique adornments for the head.

Louise trained in London, UK as a theatrical milliner making hats for productions such as Pride and Prejudice and House Of Elliot. Since returning to Melbourne Australia in 1995 she began making fashion pieces and now her millinery year is dominated by the Melbourne Cup.


Over the years, Louise has taught at various tertiary colleges, presented at international workshops / conventions and offered millinery courses from her Melbourne studio.

SUPPLIES

Suggested Supplies:

🧵 Materials & Tools
• Saucer Buntal Hats Course
• 1m Sinamay
• 1 Buntal Mat 16”
• 19 gauge wire
• Polystyrene display head
• Quilting pins
• Wire cutters
• Plastic clips/pegs
• Sewing kit

✂️ » Save on Supplies