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Spring Course Timetable now available
Click Here to find out more about our new courses such as making a felt trilby hat in a day, feather techniques and a masterclass with Bridget Bailey of Bailey Tomlin.
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.
Hats Used to Avoid Family Quarrels
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 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.
Cloche Hats: a roaring success!
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
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
Red Legs in Kingly Court
Here’s a very interesting blog you might like to read. We could be biased as it is all about Atelier Millinery!
We met ‘Red Legs in Soho’ when she was busy being a lady about town.
Carole Denford, Editor of ‘The Hat’ magazine celebrated with us at the launch of our boutique in May and then joined us again recently to see one of our creative classes in full swing.
Click on the link below to read the article
Panamas with prints
Proof that a new hat makes you happy!
Two more lovely panamas from Atelier students this weekend. This time we went for floral prints.
Recycled shirt fabric looks great on this panama
We are pleased to announce that our courses are now timetabled up to the end of October 2010.
Please click here to see images of examples of what you can make, course descriptions and the timetable.
Festive courses will begin in November and planning is underway to bring you some very exciting ideas for gifts and decorations. We will send out an alert as soon as the Festive timetable is complete.
We always enjoy getting to know our students and working with them on the courses but a recent Fascinator Kit class was exceptional. One of our students discovered her ‘inner hat wearing person’ and declared it a Life-Changing-Moment!
She was transformed before our eyes from someone who was unsure of what to make and how to approach fashion in general, into a confident wearer of feathers, flowers and all manner of other trimmings.
Another student is now considering a career in millinery. We could not be more proud.
Watch this space...
