Hat Making Project
Lace Bridal Hat
Make a lace bridal hat with sinamay and upcycled veiling.
Hat Making Project
Lace Bridal Hat
Make a lace bridal hat with sinamay and upcycled veiling.
Projects / Lace Bridal Hat
Project Overview
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.”
“I was inspired by those 1950s hats where the brim comes over your eyes. The brim block is a perfect shape and the crown block adds a little twist. Facing front-on, the hat is symmetrical, but when the wearer turns, the crown slopes towards the back. The transparent veiling on a light sinamay foundation would mean that the bride could look through the brim, although her eyes were hidden.”
You can recreate this shape by using the same hat blocks as Jane or experiment with other shapes. This project uses the traditional tip and sideband method of attaching the crown and the brim and might be best suited for those with intermediate to advanced millinery skills. If you are brand new to hat making, you may want to try one of our other hat blocking projects first.
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Project Overview
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.”
“I was inspired by those 1950s hats where the brim comes over your eyes. The brim block is a perfect shape and the crown block adds a little twist. Facing front-on, the hat is symmetrical, but when the wearer turns, the crown slopes towards the back. The transparent veiling on a light sinamay foundation would mean that the bride could look through the brim, although her eyes were hidden.”
You can recreate this shape by using the same hat blocks as Jane or experiment with other shapes. This project uses the traditional tip and sideband method of attaching the crown and the brim and might be best suited for those with intermediate to advanced millinery skills. If you are brand new to hat making, you may want to try one of our other hat blocking projects first.
What You Need
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