Louise Macdonald Milliner - Millinery courses

Millinery courses – details
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Beginners and Intermediate Millinery
Jin Sin Workshop
Make a Small Hat
Silk Flowers
Three-Day Millinery Intensive
Sculpted Headpieces
Costume Millinery
Mixed Media Flowers
Winter School in Millinery

Beginners and Intermediate Millinery
Make your own beautiful hat using traditional millinery techniques taught by one of Australia's leading milliners. These small classes are open to beginner and intermediate students, catering to different levels of experience. Students new to millinery will make a hat from start to finish, molding the millinery materials over the traditional wooden hat blocks using a variety of techniques.

Tutor: Louise Macdonald

Six sessions over six weeks
Mondays, 1 February to 8 March 2010, 6pm to 8.30pm
Cost: $320 (plus materials, approximately $30 to $80 per hat)
Course code: BI Feb

Eight sessions over eight weeks
Monday, 12 April to 31 May 2010, 6pm to 8.30pm
Cost: $420 (plus materials, approximately $30 to $80 per hat)
Course code: BI Apr

Eight sessions over eight weeks
Monday, 12 July to 30 August 2010, 6pm to 8.30pm
Cost: $420 (plus materials, approximately $30 to $80 per hat)
Course code: BI Jul

Four sessions over four weeks
Monday, 15 November to 6 December 2010, 6pm to 8.30pm
Cost: $260 (plus materials, approximately $30 to $80 per hat)
Course code: BI Nov

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Jin Sin Workshop
In this 2-day workshop you will learn how to sculpt a headpiece (or 2!) with this contemporary millinery material. Milliner Georgina Conheady will show you how to twist and turn these fibres into some spectacular headwear.

Saturday and Sunday, 13 and 14 February 2010, 10am to 4pm
Course code: JS Feb
Cost: $295 (plus materials, approximately $25 or more per headpiece)

Saturday and Sunday, 29 and 30 May 2010, 10am to 4pm
Course code: JSMay
Cost: $295 (plus materials, approximately $25 or more per headpiece)

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Make a Small Hat
Small hats are in! Make a fedora, pillbox, toy hat, beret or something of your own design. If you are a beginner you will learn some of the basics of traditional millinery or the more experienced student can try out more advanced techniques. It's a great weekend of learning and creative fun, producing a hat for Fashions on the field!

Tutor: Louise Macdonald

27 and 28 February 2010
Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm
Cost: $295, plus hat materials, approximately $30 to $80 per hat
Course code: SHFeb

8 and 9 May 2010
Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm
Cost: $295, plus hat materials, approximately $30 to $80 per hat
Course code: SHMay
Silk Flowers
Learn how to make beautiful silk flowers! In this workshop Georgina Conheady will show you how to work with silk and traditional French flower-making techniques and tools to create exquisite flowers.

Saturday 13 March 2010, 10am to 4pm
Cost: $145 (includes materials)
Course code: SF Feb

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Three-Day Millinery Intensive
Make your own beautiful hat using traditional millinery techniques taught by one of Australia's leading milliners, Georgina Conheady. If you are a beginner you will learn some of the basics of traditional millinery, while the more experienced student can try out more advanced techniques. Three great days of learning and creative fun.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 7, 8 and 9 April 2010, 10am to 4pm
Cost: $430 (includes materials)
Course code: MI Apr

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Sculpted Headpieces
Some call it a "hatinator", others an overgrown "fascinator". We call it a headpiece! Over this 2-day weekend course, learn how to sculpt with contemporary straw using traditional and new millinery techniques to make your own outstanding headpiece! Some of these techniques can also be applied to hat trimming.

Tutor: Louise Macdonald

17 and 18 April 2010
Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm
Cost: $320 (includes materials)
Course code: HPApr

7 and 8 August 2010
Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm
Cost: $320 (includes materials)
Course code: HPAug

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Costume Millinery
Milliner Louise Macdonald trained as a costume milliner in London. Following her studies she worked there with one of Europe's leading costume houses, making hats for many film television and theatre productions. This 2-day workshop is designed for people interested in costume for amateur dramatics, dance or wearable art. You'll learn some low cost millinery construction techniques for producing some out there headwear! There will also be guidance on how adapt, shape and resize existing headwear to create something new.

Tutor: Louise Macdonald

Saturday and Sunday, 5 and 6 June 2010, 10am to 4pm
Cost: $295
Course Code: CM Jun

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Mixed Media Flowers
Immerse yourself in petals in this 2-day workshop! Expert milliner and flower maker Georgina Conheady will show you how to make flowers from lace, leather, felt and ribbon as well as showing you some flower tinting techniques.

Saturday and Sunday, 19 and 20 June 2010, 10am to 4pm
Cost: $295
Course code: MMF Jun

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Winter School in Millinery
In this 5-day millinery intensive, you will make your own special hat with Louise Macdonald over 3 days. The rest of the week will draw on the expertise of other renowned Australian designers to explore trimming techniques for millinery. Monday to Friday, 5 to 9 July 2010, 10am to 4pm
Course code: Mi Jul
Cost: $595 plus some materials

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