DIY Trilby Bucket Hat | Sustainable Hat Making | Vintage Millinery Technique

How to make a freeform trilby crown with a bucket brim following a soviet design from 1962. No special blocks needed - just a plain domed crown block. We'll make the brim block out of cardboard. I'll be talking about my design making decisions, the materials used (melusine fur felt and petersham ribbon) and I'll also review the millinery supplier Petershams.

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→ Tools & Materials Cardboard Block ←
Drafting paper
Pens/pencils
Head-size oval (trace your crown block)
Ruler
Scissors
Crown block + stand
Masking tape
Curve ruler
Mounting board/ Grey board/ Paper board (1500-3000microns) (AKA "Eskaboard")

→ Tools & Materials Blocking Process ←
Crown block + stand
Clingfilm
Steamer
Melusine fur felt hood (mine is vintage from the 1960s)
Rubber band
Egg iron/ Hard boiled egg/ Lemon
Dressmaking pins (10)
Blocking cord + pin
Natural bristle brush
Pliers
Masking tape
Blocking pins

→ Tools & Materials Finishing ←
Petersham ribbon 25mm
Iron
Dressmaking pins
Needle
Thread
Thimble
Decorative ribbon

→ Further Reading ←
Edwardian Hats The Art of Millinery - Mme. Anna Ben-Yusuf 1909
From the Neck Up - Denise Dreher 1981
Hat Couture - Marianna Jongkind 2020

→ Timestamps ←
00:00 – Introduction
00:39 - The Design
01:28 - Making a Cardboard Block
04:44 - Freeform Trilby Crown
07:06 - Blocking the Brim
09:01 - Trimming Design
10:20 - Review of Petershams Millinery Supplier
11:16 - Finishing
13:09 - Final Hat

#DIYhat #millinery #hatmaking Please do not produce exact copies of by Ilona Millinery hat designs for your own commercial purposes. This video is intended to teach technique only. You are free to re-create these hat designs for your own use, as long as you do not sell the copies you have created.