Melbourne Fashion Week !!!!

Workshop: It is the trimming that makes the hat

Where: Whitehouse Institute of Design,
Level 4, 672 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: AUD$ 85 (includes material)

Tutor: Waltraud Reiners

This is a Workshop for people who would like to know the trends in Millinery
and how to trim your hats well for this season.
You will work with Jinsin, feathers, crinoline.
It will give you the skills to make a small head piece.
Make Lillies and leaves from Sinamay.

Bookings are strictly limited.

Workshop: Cobweb sinamay

When: Tuesday 1 September 2pm - 4pm

Where: Whitehouse Institute of Design,
Level 4, 672 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: AUD$ 95 (materials included)

Tutor: Waltraud Reiner

Skill level: No experience necessary

This is a Workshop for people who already have experience with hat making.
We will only learn technique in this workshop and not finish the hat.

You will learn how to shape the cobweb Sinamay onto hat blocks and how to combine the material with Sinamay.

Bookings are strictly limited.

Seminar: The millinery trade - how to love and survive it

Where: Whitehouse Institute of Design,
Level 4, 672 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: AUD$ 10

Tutor: Waltraud Reiner

This seminar will be a visual feast of hats, fabrics and the long time experience of the industry will be presented with the warm, engaging, passionate and insprirational nature of Waltraud Reiner. Principal of Torb and Reiner Millinery supplies and education and founder of the Blue Hat project.

Also chance to win a set of hat making DVDs.

Bookings are strictly limited.

Seminar: Changing hats - how to use hats, colour and shape in our 'busy life' to aid our emotional wellbeing.

Where: Whitehouse Institute of Design,
Level 4, 672 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: AUD$ 10

Tutor: Waltraud Reiner

Even though you might say ‘’I don’t suit hats and don’t wear hats’ we ALL do.
We change hats daily as we go through life.
Colour, shape and styles affect our mood and wellbeing greatly.
Are you game to find out what is under your hat and how proudly you wear your hat?

Bookings are strictly limited.

Workshop: Hats with HeArT and Soul - the hat is the art of the heart

Where: Whitehouse Institute of Design,
Level 4, 672 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: AUD$ 155 (materials included)

Tutor: Waltraud Reiner

Skill level: No experience necessary

Make a hat or head piece which expresses who you really are.
Explore the use of different materials and colours to make a head piece which will make your soul sing.
Besides learning millinery techniques, you will go home with a head piece
which will have a high class finish and will make you stand proud wherever you wear it.

Bookings are strictly limited.

Workshop: Every flower opens from the bud

Where: Whitehouse Institute of Design,
Level 4, 672 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: AUD$ 155 (materials included)

Tutor: Georgina Conheady

Skill level: No experience necessary

Flowers have great healing powers within their colours and their shapes.
Once apon a time they had their own language of love and were used as such.
This workshop will let you use the skill of flower making to enhance your skill
as a milliner and bring joy into your life.

You will learn how to make a rose or a chrysanthemum which can be used for hats, head pieces, corsages or just purely decorative.

Bookings are strictly limited.

Workshop: Feathers in your cap

Where: Whitehouse Institute of Design,
Level 4, 672 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: AUD$ 155 (materials included)

Tutor: Sabine Pedder

Skill level: No experience necessary

Do you know how feathers are cut, curled and shaped??
Well...you will after you have done this workshop.

You will walk home with a professional head piece which will be in the true sense of the word ‘a feather in your cap’.

Bookings are strictly limited.