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Summer school in Millinery for absolute beginners: In person
Date: Monday 28th July - Friday 1st August Inclusive 2025
Times of class: BST 10 am to 3 pm:
Workshop week rate £750.00 for 25 hours of tuition.
Join me for five days of intense tuition designed for absolute beginners in millinery. Experience hands-on, face-to-face instruction in beginner’s millinery.
You may want to learn how to make a halo crown with a wired, flowered stem or a glamorous perched hat
Do you want to learn how to block a straw or felt, or are you interested in blocking straw fabrics, constructing a wire-framed hat, or making a perched covered hat? All these subjects and more can be covered in this class.
If this is what you seek, then this is the class for you. There are only three spaces available for the week.
Not only will you gain skills in making your desired items, but you will also observe the other students create, giving you
the chance to spark off the creativity of one another.
Notes will be provided to accompany all skills learnt, either during the class or afterwards. You can also film the skills being demonstrated, subject to data protection regulations.
This is a fantastic opportunity to learn the skills of an experienced milliner, Denise Innes-Spencer, who is the skills writer for ‘The Hat Magazine’.
If you are serious about millinery, I am equally dedicated to helping you achieve your dreams.
The fee for this week is £750.00. The price does not include the materials you use, depending on what you make.
Please note: Because of the lack of space in the studio, Tiara, wedding veil, and crinoline sealing are exempt. There are classes later in the year to cover these subjects.
Course Content
Once you have booked, both you and Denise will agree a strategey for 'smart learning' and plan the class. Then Denise will take you through your learning with step by step notes and leave you with more skills and knowledge, tips and tricks to help you 'work smart' with your time. All supplies are extra to class.
Previous classes with milliners have included:
- Learning new methods of finishing the edges of straws: rolled, folded, bound and double lined. The student came away with various samples of hem trims and finishes to use on straw hats.
- Tiara and wedding headdresses making, using skills to develop new styles and designs. The student came away with various methods in making and finishing tiara bands and crowns.
- Learning new ways of trimming a hat or headdress with unusual fabrics that included pinok pok, raffia fabric and straw. The student came away with various examples of trims all using the working smart method.
- Guiding through the process of making a hat or headdress from start to finish. The student came away with the knowledge and skills of making a hat or headdress from start to finish. (Sometimes the degree of difficulty in a hat/headdress will require more time for showing the skills. Please ask for details)
All students from this 5 hour lesson will come away with:
- Full detailed notes of skills learnt
- Examples of skills learnt
- Skills using tips and tricks for making high quality millinery
Course Delivery
A face-to-face course held in Denise's studio in the suburbs of Liverpool.
Class sizes are small to ensure you receive the personal support you need. This course will have no more than four students.
Step-by-step notes will be provided to students for the course to help them as they learn the skills of the class/workshop.
Students are not allowed to video record the session unless otherwise stated. To be compliant with the data protection laws. Permission needs to be obtained from all students in the class/workshop.
Rules of Engagement
By booking a place on this course, you agree to the following rules of engagement:
- It is each student's responsibility to ensure that they arrive ontime before the course starts.
- Students will be required to bring a packed lunch to the class.
- All course content remains the intellectual property of The British School of Millinery or any of the visiting teachers, lecturing at the school. Students do not have permission to share any information from the courses with any other person in person, online or offline. To do so would be in breach of copyright and interlectual property laws. Many of the classes have already been either published or protected by these laws.
- Students do not have permission to video record this course. Any fellow class participants have not signed a data protection agreement and have not given you permission for them class to be recorded in the class. To do so would be a breach of data protection laws.
- Any personal information shared between the students and the tutor during the course must considered confidential and not shared without the consent of the relevant individual. To do so would be a breach of data protection laws.