Virtual Demonstration – Bias Brims – watch anytime
£45.00
This demo is aimed at:
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- Those wanting to explore a different brim technique which you don't need to have a brim block for . This is an advanced demo and students need to be experienced with sinamay to execute the techniques from the demo.
- Learning how to create a bias brim, a technique which works well with waffle and plain sinamay and enables you to block difficult shapes as well as creating brims using less material.
- Different hats designs will be explored using this technique including blocking the brim, creating headpieces and trims as well as a basic brim which you don't need a brim block for.
- Techniques to create a bias brim
- Techniques to create a bias brim headpiece
- Technique to create a bris trim
- The knowledge to create more and lots of inspiration to use this technique in your designs.
Virtual Jinsin & Silk Abaca Headpiece Demonstration – watch anytime
£85.00
This course is aimed at:
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- Those who want to explore working with Jinsin , silk Abaca and crin
- Exploring and experimenting with Jinsin, a material renowned for its sculptural quality. It creates incredible shapes when curved and flexed.
- How to edge jinsin an crin to create sculptural designs
- Exploring and experimenting with Silk Abaca, a material which is fine and smooth and can be free-shaped, blocked or used for draping. Because this material is interwoven with silk, it is pliable and creates amazing curves when twisted and shaped.
- Using crin to edge your design and create drama.
- Creating a felt cage to create your design on
- Confidence in working with these inspiring new materials and inspiration to create many more design from them.
- A finished headpiece made of jinsin, silk abaca and crin
- Lots of design ideas for using these techniques in your work
- Information on suppliers and materials.
Virtual Demonstration ‘Designing Hats to Suit your Clients’ – watch anytime
£45.00
This course is aimed at students wanting to:
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- Understanding your clients requirements and what their needs, wants and desires are from your design and service
- Exploring trims, and balance of hat shapes and trims and how best to design to enhance the wearer
- Looking at the following attributes and how we can as milliners design to enhance our clients
- Faceshapes
- Hair styles
- Positioning of hat
- How to work your design to best suit someone who wears glasses
- How to work your design to best suit someone with prominent features
- How to design to best flatter different body shapes
- How to design to enhance different outfits, patterns and plains
- How to choose colours which enhance different skin tones
- Lots of working examples of different clients and how different designs can work for them
- The confidence to meet your clients needs, wants and desires
- The ability to use design know how to create flattering headwear
- Inside knowledge in which designs will suit your clients based on their attributes and the style of their chosen outfits.
- The skill to help your clients feel confident in the headwear you create for them
Modular Business Mentoring Programme
About the Module Business Mentoring Programme
When: This programme can be taken at a time to suit you and you can space out the modules to suit your other commitments.
Where: The pre recorded element of each module is delivered online via a recorded zoom or vimeo link so you can watch anytime and also re watch for the duration of the programme and up to a year after. Each module’s 1 hour mentoring session takes place with Jenny via a zoom link. Each session will have full notes which can be downloaded from your personal business log on,in the business portal on our website.
Your Tutor: Jenny will be taking you through the content of the module and taking your individual mentoring sessions. The content is based on her experience running a successful millinery business for the last 17 years and previous experience working in the retail sector in business planning and marketing.
Who is the course for?: Students who want to start monetising their millinery passion. This could be as a small scale hobby business, an online business, a wholesale business or a customer facing operation. You may need help setting up your business, been trading a while and want to take it to the next step or you may feel stuck and unable to reach your potential. This programme covers it all and with the mentoring sessions you will be getting practical advise and ideas specific to your business, enabling you to reach your potential.
Aim of the Programme: The aim of the programme is to introduce students to all aspects of running a profitable millinery business.
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Recorded ‘How to Cost a Hat’ Course (inc template in your currency – Watch Anytime)
£49.00
Pricing can be tricky, have you ever struggled working out what price you should sell your designs for? Especially trying to make sure you are earning what you need to and what you deserve from your passion!
This course is recorded and emailed to you along with the spreadsheet within 24 hours of your purchase.
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Jenny takes you through a step by step process along with a logical spreadsheet (emailed to you) which you can use easily, quickly and reliably to work out how to charge for your millinery. She also explains the in's and out's of costing and other variables and challenges to consider.
Gift Voucher For Our Millinery School
£30.00 – £200.00
Choose to give a beautifully wrapped voucher for one of our courses with our International Millinery School.
The recipient can choose any 'In studio' or 'Virtual' course to the value of their voucher or alternatively use the voucher towards an alternative course.
The voucher will be hand tied with ribbon and include a voucher with your gift message and details of our school. (Please note - you will be able to leave a gift message when you go to the checkout and the item can be sent to the recipient if required.)
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‘Create Couture’ – Suede Leather Rose – Make at Home Box
Original price was: £35.00.£29.00Current price is: £29.00.
A beautiful ‘Leather Suede Corsage Kit.’ from our home label 'Create Couture' You can make it for youself or we can send it for you with a message as a gift.
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