Virtual: Suede / Leather Headband and Blocked Veil – 4 hours – no current dates please enquire

The course will involve:

• Learning how to cover and finish a leather headband. How to cut, block and finish a matching birdcage veil and veiling trim

Level – This course is aimed at those with some level of blocking and sewing experience

You will need:

• 1 piece of fine lightweight lamb nappa leather or suede
• Fabric glue (SOBO is a good choice available on Amazon)
• Cocktail stick to apply glue
• Double sided sticky tape (at least an inch wide) (essential)
• Press and seal film or a think plastic bag which the masking tape peels off from easily when over the block
• Masking tape any width (essential)
• Spray Water bottle
• Please also ensure you have a fabric glue which requires you to leave it to become tacky before use, this should be a white glue rather than a UHU type glue ie Sobo glue
• Pins with heads
• Pegs (ideally soft close) but any will do
• OPTIONAL – If you have a dome headblock (usual crown block) please have this out too as I will be showing you a technique with this as well, also blocking pins

• 1 x 40mm wide jersey covered padded headband

• https://www.petershams.com/collections/headbands/products/40mm-super-padded-headbands-jersey?variant=29684682195026

• Paper template
• Scissors
• Sewing needles
• Thread to match your veiling/leather
• Dressmaker’s pins
• Polystyrene dummy head please make sure the circumference of the head (around the head band) is at least 21.5 inches
• Ballpoint pen or similar
• Matching Petersham 15mm ribbon for finishing.
• A metre length of 12in wide coordinating veil
• Hairspray

You will leave with:

• A covered leather headband. A completed blocked birdcage veil and matching veiling trim