Take your skills to the next level with our step-by-step hat making projects, background stories, millinery tutorials and workroom tips from headwear industry experts

With: Monthly milliner Paula Kasu, Royal Ascot, Video blog ‘Making your own hatter’s heel’, Angela Elliott’s studio, Elastical headband project and much more!

In the July 2026 Issue Maker Project, Martine demonstrates how to make an elasticated headband designed to slip on and off a hat.

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The Project Library features over 100 step-by-step millinery projects, hat making tutorials and useful hints and tips previously published in HATalk Magazine.

Draped bow by Martine Henry in Issue 228
  • From the Blog

    Aage Thaarup: Royal Hat Maker

    Aage Thaarup was one of the first in a line of high fashion male milliners to emerge in the twentieth century.

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