My first millinery piece after shoulder surgery in October 2025 was a circus tent-themed top hat created for The Corset Revival Project. The original concept The project, devised by Andrea Djilali of Circular Fashion Incubator CIC and Dr Esther Pugh at Leeds Beckett...
I've been asked a lot of weird and wonderful questions in my time, especially when I was a manager in IT. I think the challenge of a sprout hat has been one of my most interesting adventures in millinery, This question was posed by Adam and Joseph, the organisers of...
What is it? If you love making hats, and are thinking that you would like to ‘do something commercial’ with them, but have no idea where to start, The Business of Millinery is the absolutely perfect millinery course for you. It’s a 10 week course, focusing on a...
This was written back in 2015. I didn't have a domain name or website. I didn't know then that I would actually move to live and work in Basel in October 2016. As I started pulling material together for my own website, somehow, somewhere I found two old blog pages...
Introduction This blog post was originally written back in 2015, when I didn't have a domain name, let alone a website. As I started pulling material together for my own website, somehow, somewhere I found two old blog pages stored in a directory I'd copied over from...