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Millinery courses – details
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Beginners and Intermediate Millinery
Make a Small Hat weekend
Sculpted Headpieces
Summer Schools 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

    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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  • Make a Small Hat weekend
    Make a hat with milliner Georgina Conheady. Learn how to use parisisal straw or sinamay, employing traditional and non traditional millinery techniques to make a hat of your own design for the races or wedding.

    Tutor: Georgina Conheady

    21 and 22 August 2010
    Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm
    Cost: $330 including cost of materials
    Course code: SHAug

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  • Sculpted HeadpiecesSculpted 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

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

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  • Summer Schools in Millinery
    In this 5-day millinery intensive, you will make your own special hat with Louise Macdonald. The rest of the week will draw the expertise of other renowned Australian milliners and designers who will explore trimming techniques.

    10 to 14 January 2011
    Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm
    Cost: $620 plus some materials
    Course code: SS1

    17 to 21 January 2011
    Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm
    Cost: $620 plus some materials
    Course code: SS2

    24 to 28 January 2011
    Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm
    Cost: $620 plus some materials
    Course code: SS3

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