Atelier Millinery

Summer Course Timetable now available

Atelier — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:08:36 +0000

The Summer timetable is now available online with some exciting new masterclasses in the list:

Bridget Bailey’s Day Masterclass: A new way with sinamay
Bridget Bailey’s Evening Masterclass: Fascinators without feathers
Tina Giuntini’s Day Masterclass: Make a sinamay pillbox hat

Click Here for more details

Click Here to visit our booking partner, Eventbrite.

Millinery Starter Kits

These cleverly compiled sets of millinery basics including thread in a variety of colours are now on sale in our boutique in Kingly Court.

Click Here for contents list.

Sarah Cant Sample Sale Now On

Atelier — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:16:23 +0000

Sarah’s pre-Ascot sale is underway at the boutique.

Hats and headpieces are discounted by 50-70% so get ahead of the pack and get your Ascot winner now…

Click Here to see the runners and riders…

Hats Used to Avoid Family Quarrels

Atelier — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:48:13 +0000

Taken from the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser

Saturday 28 February 1891

via the British Newspaper Archive at The British Library:

Masterclasses from 5 of the best

Atelier — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:44:24 +0000

Atelier Millinery is delighted to host a series of masterclasses to celebrate our second year at Kingly Court.

Sarah Cant will be teaching her special technique for making fabric-covered bases with trimmings.

Bridget Bailey will be sharing her very clever design of the iconic Bailey Tomlin pea pod with students.

Alva has developed a brand new course for Atelier Millinery using upcycling techniques for maximum texture.

Judy Bentinck will show you how to make light work of fabric flower production – by popular request.

Our own Tina Giuntini will hold our first two day workshop making classic pillboxes in sinamay with a clever trim.

Click here for more information, images, dates and booking instructions

Click Here to go directly to the website for our booking partner, Eventbrite.

Check us out in Making Magazine

Atelier — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:01:17 +0000

Fame at last for the whole Atelier Millinery équipe , including our honorary team member!

Clare Kelly has done us proud with her Meet the Makers article discovering that, ‘hats are for life, not just for weddings’. Clare spent the day with us and even joined in with a course. She says that visiting our boutique, ‘is like going back in time when customer service meant just that.’

Mary Portas – are you listening?!

We now stock Making Magazine and this month is The Custom Made Issue including our upcycling project showing you how to make a stylish hat trimming from an old shirt. Watch out boys – ladies will be after your best shirts now…

Click Here to read Clare’s blog about her visit

Hooray – gift vouchers now available online!

Atelier — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:14:58 +0000

We are now offering gift vouchers online in a range of denominations. They may be redeemed against courses, headwear or any other lovely items in our boutique and are valid for six months.

Click Here to purchase gift vouchers via our booking partner – you will be redirected to the Evenbrite website.

If you require a card or any additional information to give to the recipient of the vouchers, please contact us.

For further information please contact us via this site, by phone or pop in for a chat.

Cloche Hats: a roaring success!

Atelier — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:13:13 +0000

Cloche hats might make you think of the Roaring Twenties but they are alive and very much in vogue in 2010!

Our new Cloche Hat Course is proving very popular. A customer even tried to buy the cloche lovingly created by one of our students because it was so good – not that we like to boast on their behalf …

See below for recent examples then CLICK HERE for course booking details.

We are family

You never know who you’ll meet on one of our classes

Atelier — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:54:45 +0000

We started to realise recently what a wide range of people enrol on our classes at Atelier Millinery.

Londoners are regulars at Kingly Court, of course, but we meet people from all over the world. They have in common an interest in hats and in learning something new – apart from that, they couldn’t be more different. We have taught burlesque performers, dentists, solicitors, cabin crew, bankers, civil servants, doctors, students, teachers,designers, ladies of leisure and many aspiring milliners.

We wonder who we will meet next…

Below are some great examples of work from this week’s students:

The Jeweller

The New Londoner

The Optometrist

Ladies who love flowers

The award for the biggest fascinator goes to…

Atelier — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:31:34 +0000

… one of today’s students who comes from the school of ‘more is more’! We were impressed with this bold approach to trimming from both mother and daughter.

Tropical meets Ascot

It's so big that we can't even see you!

All in all, it was another productive afternoon with three very lovely finished pieces: one destined for Ascot, one tropical explosion and one bridal.

Elegant Bridal Headpiece

The Vintage Bride discovers a new talent…

Atelier — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:58:43 +0000

Thanks to The Vintage Bride for such a lovely report of her recent experience with us at Atelier Millinery. We loved the finished headpiece – very Coco!

Click here to read ‘Hat Making at Atelier Millinery’ by ‘The Vintage Bride‘