Blocking with Sinamay | How to use Sinamay for millinery | millinery hat making technique

Sinamay can be blocked on anything! So Lets put this to the test and try it on a banana. I will also go through making patterned sinamay button bases featuring pleats, chevrons and herringbones.

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→ Tools & Materials ←
Hat block (such as a banana)
Tape measure
Baking paper
Steam iron
Triangle ruler
Sinamay
Frixion pen for marking sinamay
Kitchen scissors
Small plastic bag or clingfilm
Pins
Milliner’s straw needles & thread & thimbles
UHU glue with toothpick
Blocking pins
A pin pusher/mini hammer or thimbles for blocking
Flexible plastic corset bone


→ Time Stamps ←
0:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Blocking on a Banana
07:16 - Sinamay Button Bases
08:28 - Chevron Pattern
11:20 - Herringbone Pattern
14:02 - Pleated Pattern


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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.