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A covered foam oval shape resembling your head is the best. Brushes: Brushes, similar to these used to polish shoes are excellent for brushing up felts when blocking felt hats. This should be done in an anti-clockwise direction to brush the pile to a perfect sheen. Small paint brushes are used to apply a stiffening solution to felt and straw hats, so that they keep their shape.

Dolly: A linen dolly head enables you to work on your hats while placed on these dolly heads. The paded linen allows for pinning while viewing the hat on a "head". Drawing pins are necessary when using wooden hat blocks.

These allow your felt or straw to be secured when stretched over the wooden block, as, if it is not pinned securely felts in particular, will shrink when drying, making the hat crown or brim shorter or smaller than was intended.

Cotton covered Millinery wire: this wire is used in the construction of a hat, but can also be used to secure hats on blocks while in the blocking process, making it one of your millinery tools.

The cotton covering allows the wire to be secured when sewn together for head wires etc. Paper covered or plain wire will not give the same security that can be achieved with the cotton covered wire. Old corset boning makes an excellent millinery tool to remove blocked hats from the wooden and cast iron blocks.

It is important to not distort the shape when removing the hat from the blocks, and by running the flexible corset boning between the hat and the block can firstly detach any stickiness from the block and secondly allow some leverage to assist in the removal of the hat. Be aware, however, that the modern type boning is made from plastics and is not suitable, so you would need to search out some vintage clothing to find the particular corset boning I am referring to.

Plastic bags to cover the wooden block, so that the timber doesn't stain your beautiful hat before you have even finished it, as well as preserving your hat block. I usually use a layer of plastic and then a layer of cotton interlock fabric, which absorbs the steam and lays a nice foundation when blocking sinamay or straw. Threads can vary in quality, and it is really worthwhile using threads that wont snap at every pull.

The lesser quality are usually fluffy and unevenly spun and wont pull through smoothly. Glues are not very often used in Millinery. However, there are many who use glue continually, but traditionally, it is not a common method of putting a hat together. The only times I use glue is when I need to secure a lining into the crown of a hat or something like that. Stitches are much more secure and if it is a summer hat, the heat of the sun can melt the glue to leave an area looking very second hand when it has stained the fabrics used to create the hat.

Measuring equipment: A dressmaker's tape measure is an absolute necessity. Other rulers, particularly the shorter ones can prove helpful. There is one millinery tool I have seen and haven't been able to find one to purchase, and that is a steel tape measure with a scissor action to open and extend while measuring the inside of the crown.

Let me know if you know where to find one to purchase. These are by no means the only Millinery tools you will use, as you progress you will find others that will work for you. Millinery Techniques Let's promote the wearing of beautiful Fashion hats! Millinery Tools for Making Hats Equipment used in Millinery Millinery is an age old craft and over the years the millinery tools and equipment used haven't really changed a great deal. Pencil sharpener and eraser are also valuable assets to have on hand.

The paded linen allows for pinning while viewing the hat on a "head" Drawing pins are necessary when using wooden hat blocks. This Form cannot be submitted until the missing fields labelled below in red have been filled in. Let's promote the wearing of beautiful Fashion hats!

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