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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 are made from the softer obeche, 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.
Price £114.00 (£97.02 ex VAT) |
| A simple stand for use while working on a block. Height 200mm. Post diameter 25mm.
Price £25.00 (£21.28 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 £12.99 (£11.06 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 £3.75 (£3.19 ex VAT)
12 Box Pack £42.00 (£35.74 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 £9.99 (£8.50 ex VAT) |
| A superior hat stretcher designed to provide a smooth and efficient stretching action. The movement of the two halves of the split block is controlled by a twin screw mechanism to ensure that the halves always remain parallel. Nylon bearings and bronze nuts ensure a long and trouble free life. A 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) |
Price £359.00 (£305.53 ex VAT) |
| 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 £148.00 (£125.96 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 £49.00 (£41.70 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 £17.00 (£14.47 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 (£3.40 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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Price £1.99 (£1.66 ex VAT)
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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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