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Hat Blocks & Accessories for Milliners |
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Our dolly heads are ideal for making up hats or for display purposes. They can be made from obeche or balsa wood, and have a 25mm diameter stand hole in the bottom. Many customers have also found them useful for making fascinators. They are available in all sizes.
Obeche
Price £127.00 (£105.83 ex VAT)
Balsa wood
Price £137.00 (£114.16 ex VAT) |
A featured dolly head with eyebrows, nose and chin. Available in obeche or balsa wood.
Obeche
Price £186.00 (£155.00 ex VAT)
Balsa wood
Price £198.00 (£165.00 ex VAT) |
| A simple stand for use while working on a block. Height 200mm. Post diameter 25mm.
Price £26.00 (£21.67 ex VAT) |
A blocking spring is a very useful millinery tool. It is an old idea which we have updated. Our durable plastic springs enable you to block a crown more easily with fewer pins and in less time than using pins alone.
A blocking spring is particularly helpful when blocking sinamay. Holding the squares of sinamay in the correct position on the block while you pull and pin can be difficult but the spring will hold the sinamay securely in place while you distribute the extra material at the corners of the square, as you see in the photo. This method gives a neater result with much less effort than when using pins alone and also means you use far fewer pins.
Springs come in all sizes to accommodate your different crown blocks and come with instructions for use. Please say which size you require, bearing in mind that the spring needs to match the head size of the block you'll use it with. |
| Price £13.99 (£11.66 ex VAT) |
| Pinning the fabric to the block can be hard on the fingers. But not any more! Our blocking pins have large plastic heads, making it easy to push them in and take them out again. The pins are the same gauge as dressmaker's pins and will bend rather than break. Kinder to your fingers and to your block. Far superior to both chart pins and drawing pins. |
Price £3.99 (£3.33 ex VAT)
12 Box Pack £45.00 (£37.50 ex VAT) |
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| Pin Pushers are ingenious tools. They have a place among the astute milliner’s tool kitand are in fact indispensable in some blocking situations.
The pin pusher’s wooden handle fits comfortably into the hand and the metal tube into which the dressmaker’s pin is dropped, head first, has a magnet at the bottom. This holds the pin inside so that it does not fall out, whatever the angle of the tool.
Dressmaker’s pins are hard to press into wooden blocks by hand and a thimble is awkward to use, as it easily slips off the pinhead. A pin pusher gives the user extra mechanical power! |
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| Price £10.99 (£9.16 ex VAT) |
A handy pair of plyers for removing dressmakers pins from your block (120mm total length). Also useful for cutting wire.
Price £4.99 (£4.16 ex VAT) |
A handy 1" disposable brush for use with various stiffeners. Sold in packs of 5.
Price £2.50 (£2.08 ex VAT) |
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21 guage spring steel wire for brims. Sold in aproxiamtley 20 meter lengths. Can be cut with the small plyers above.
Price £2.25 (£1.87 ex VAT) |
Connecters for the brim wire above. Ideally closed with a pair of self locking plyers. Sold in bags of aproximatley 100.
Price £2.99 (£2.49 ex VAT) |
Tip:
To acheive a good tight joint, use a pair of plyers to put a small kink in each end of the wire before inserting them into the connecter. |
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Self locking plyers for closing the connecters onto the wire.
Price £5.99 (£4.99 ex VAT) |
Great for string grooves and crown bases. 2mm diameter and sold in 5 meter lengths.
Price £1.75 (£1.46 ex VAT) |
| A superior hat stretcher designed to provide a smooth and efficient stretching action. The uniqie mechanism inside ensures that the two halves always remain parallel. An engraved graduated scale shows the hat size in centimetres, and a conversion chart is provided for inch sizes, together with full instructions for use. The size range is from 52cm (20.5 inches) to 63cm (24 3/4 inches). We are confident that you will not find a better hat stretcher anywhere else. You will be able to accuratley read the head size measurment that you are stretching too with no more guess work due to the top half moving less than the bottom! |
| The easy way to stretch a brim's headsize during production. Simply pull the blocked brim over the stretcher block and down to the size required. For felt hats, stretch dry to half an inch larger than the size required and leave overnight to stretch. Because of the properties of felt, it will shrink back to the correct size. For straw and sinamay hats, slightly dampen the headband, stretch to the same size required and allow to dry. |
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| Price £152.00 (£126.67 ex VAT) |
| A Ribbon board is for shaping wide petersham or bias fabric so that it will fit round the edge of a brim without wrinkling. The material is first wetted, then one end is folded over the edge of the ribbon board and pinned in place with two pins angled towards the centre of the board as shown. The material is then wrapped continuously round the edge of the board, under tension, until the length is formed. The end is then secured with two pins as before. You should allow a little extra length so that you can cut off the two ends marked by the pins. The binding can be removed from the board as soon as it is dry, and sewn onto the brim. Angle the first pair of pins so that you will be able to overlap the pins with the material to obtain sufficient length without too much distortion. The easiest way to hold the board is on your lap while seated. |
| Price £51.00 (£42.50 ex VAT) |
| For blocking the headband when using a solid centre brim block. Our brim blocks with solid centres have threaded inserts in the crown position, so that a collar can be securely fixed while blocking, and can be easily removed when no longer required. No more trouble with pegs that don't fit and collars that fall off the block! |
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| Price £18.00 (£15.00 ex VAT) |
Crowns that are made to the exact height of the finished hat do no have any room for a string groove to be added. In this case, the blocks have screw fixings in the bottom so one of these crown collars can be attached. The top edge is bevelled so once it is screwed on, a groove is created. They can also be screwed onto the bottom of a multiblock tip for use when making pill box hats.
Price £22.00 (£18.33 ex VAT) |
A band block can be used for final shaping of a hat especially if you want to shape it to the exact outline of your customers' head. You can send us the outline so we can make the block the correct shape. Just the job to create a perfect fit! Heads can be measured using a conformateur but we've heard of it being done with a felxible ruler too. More commonly used for men's hats.
Price £35.00 (£29.16 ex VAT) |
A pressing ring is used whne blocking an up turned brim such as a topper. The felt is pressed and held into the hole simply by pushing the pressing ring in side leaving you free to get on with shaping the rest of the brim a little more quickly. These must usually be made with the brim in order to ensure a good fit.
Price £18.00 (£15.00 ex VAT) |
A tipper is very useful to help hold the felt into the hollowed tip of a crown such as a trilby or fedora. These must be made at the same time as the block and cannot be ordered later (unless you send us the block back!).
Price £35.00 (£29.16 ex VAT) |
Inspired by Henry L Ermatinger's book 'Scientific Hat Finishing & Renovating', this is a bottom board for ironing and shaping brims. Used in conjunction with a band block below.
Price £130.00 (£108.33 ex VAT) |
| A corset stay - the type which looks like a flattened wire spring - is ideal for taking a blocked crown or brim off a hat block after stiffening and drying!
They have smooth ends, which will not damage the hat fabric.
Corset stays bend in all directions yet remain stiff. This means that they can be inserted between the cling film covering the block and the hat fabric and moved up and down to loosen it and enable you to take your blocked shape off without damaging it. (Approximate length 30cm)
Very helpful indeed! |
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| Price £3.99 (£3.33 ex VAT) |
| Beautiful, expensive hats need protection! When an umbrella isn’t to hand and is awkward to carry, the answer is a Hat cover, discreetly hidden in your handbag and ready to be unfolded at a moment’s notice if rain should threaten. Your hat will be protected for the time it takes to reach shelter, when the hat cover is just as easily and quickly folded again and returned to it’s handy pouch. Can you afford to be without one? Freebies for your customers perhaps! |
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| Discounts available for big orders - please ask.. Do you sell your hats? Perhaps they could be a good freebie for your customers. |
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