Aim of Course:  The aim of the course is to provide students with the skills to design and create individual headpieces and fascinators using traditional millinery fabrics and techniques from the comfort of their own home.

Introduction to fabrics, feathers and flowers.

- Stiffeners, colours and edging. Tricks of the trade.

- Shaping, cutting and moulding.

- Bases and Brims.

- Large or small, what suits you?-

- Assembling your piece.

-  Finishing touches.

- Beading, feathers and embroidery to make your creation a truly individual statement.

During this course, students will learn the process of creating one of a kind fascinators and headpieces using not only traditional millinery fabrics and techniques, but also many things they may already have laying around their kitchen.

The aim of the course is to allow students to create an amazing headpiece from scratch. Topics include hand stitching and machine work, creating brimmed pieces, using moulds to get solid shapes, and embellishing their finished piece with beadwork and feathers.

Although an amount of millinery fabric will be supplied, Students are advised that in order to get the most from the course, they need to bring the following acoutrements:

sewing needles, threads, beads, synthetic flowers, scissors, thimble, ribbons, and any haberdashery which they feel would add to their final creation. Students are also advised to bring along a number of old/second hand hats or headpieces which they will be deconstructing and upcycling.

Fee: €150

Duration: One evening a week for 7 weeks from 6pm - 8pm

Location: GMIT Cluain Mhuire Campus, Wellpark

Lecturer: Jaime McEleney

Start date:  Thursday 30th September 2010

The running of courses is conditional on sufficient enrolments.