Studio Course (2 day) Crown & Brim Hat Blocking – Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th March 2025

About your Tutor

Jenny Roberts is one of the North’s leading milliners. Recognised for her couture brand, she has been creating beautifully crafted pieces for her clients for over 15 years.  Over the last 9 years she has gained an international reputation for the Millinery School, teaching to the highest standard for hobby and professional milliners.

Offering a variety of classes from her Harrogate based School Jenny is thrilled to be offering this course.

The course will involve:

• Learning how to block a crown and brim using traditional techniques of steaming and pinning over a vast choice of wooden blocks.
• Practical knowledge of how to edge with wire and a bias piece and also create different brim edgings.
• Learning how to size your hat.
• Creating samples of trims including sinamay lilies, roses, leaves, bias strips, swirls, curls, free form shapes and bows and others depending on experience.
• Knowledge of balancing trim positionings and finishing a hat to couture standard.

You will leave with:

• A finished crown and brim hat.
• Knowledge of how to technically create a crown and brim hat in order to make more.
• Inspiration and knowledge in how to adapt this technique to create different looks and to make sure a particular head size is achieved.
• To see more photos of our students work on this course, please link to the following facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pg/jrmillineryschool/photos/?tab=album&album_id=213699329316215

Here is a little more information;

Our address is Cold Bath Place, off Cold Bath Road, HG2 0PQ.  There is free parking in and around the streets adjacent to us and also on Cold Bath Road, if possible avoid parking outside the shop as we may have clients coming in and out.

There are lots of lovely sandwich shops to find lunch and we will as always provide teas and coffees and snacks throughout the day, should you want to bring your lunch we have a fridge.

We will start at 9.30am (please arrive for coffee/tea from 9.15am) and we will finish at 3.30pm.

Please can you bring with you an apron and a bag to take your work home with you.  Also best not to wear clothes that might snag or ruin.