If you want a truly unique wedding look, you can create your own lace bridal hat using vintage lace veiling and decorate it with handmade lace flowers.

UK milliner Jane Fryers is well known for her use of traditional millinery techniques on a mixture of recycled fabrics and unusual modern materials. She has collaborated with Guy Morse-Brown Hat Blocks to create a special series of upcycling tutorials for us. In this project, Jane demonstrates how to make a lace bridal hat with sinamay and secondhand lace veiling.

“As I wanted this hat to be as close to a bridal veil as possible, I decided to use just one layer of pre-stiffened sinamay as a foundation to keep the transparency of the fabric on top,” says Jane. “I found a delicate piece of a vintage bridal veil at a stall in the market. There were a few rips and a bit of staining, but enough undamaged fabric for a hat. I wanted to create a hat that was so light and sheer that it still looked like a veil but showed off the shapes of the blocks.”