JANE AUSTEN FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA
12-14 April 2019

Jane Austen Festival Australia is an annual celebration in Canberra where Austen and Napoleonic fans from all over Australia come and indulge themselves in everything Regency - including dancing, music, food, games, archery, fencing, theatre, promenades, grand balls, talks, workshops, costumes and books. This festival is now a regular part of the ACT Heritage Festival, Australian Heritage Week and is supported by the ACT Government, the Australian Costumers Guild and the Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy. Since its inception in 2008 this little festival has blossomed into one of the most delightful four days anyone could experience each April in an old and beautiful part of Canberra, the Federal capital of Australia.

December 20, 2017

Millinery Classes - learn to block a hat, make a buckram bonnet and knit a Scottish Tam!

Millinery Holiday Summer School in Canberra this January
Week 1: 8-12 January 2018Week 2: 15-19 January 2018 (only 3 places left)
Ages 12 - Adults ~ 1.30-5.00pm each day
    


Learn to block a hat, wire & cover a bonnet and knit a beret. In this historical millinery summer school Aylwen will introduce you to blocked, patterned and knitted hats and bonnets. Most students should produce two hats during the course, depending on the chosen design and materials. Please leave time to do homework in the evenings. Students will be using professional hat blocks during this course and supplied with information booklets with supplier and material information.


Places are limited to 6 - only when your registration is paid will your place be held.




In order to fully participate in the practical exercises please bring the following materials/equipment to the first class:

Needles (millinery, mixed pack of 3-9)
Thimble (metal)
Tape measure
Fabric and paper scissors
100% Guterman Polyester thread in black and white (100m rolls will be sufficient)

Tailors chalk or tailors pencil

Apron (to cover chest and thighs)

Household pins (26 x 0.75mm)
Dressmaking pins (30 x 0.60mm)
Gladwrap and two rolls of cheap paper towel
Pencil, pen, sharpener, eraser, ruler & 2-ring folder
5mm x 30cm circular needle and set of 5 double point knitting needles, 20cm x 5mm. Birch or addi brands recommended. Do not use Lincraft brand.



Other useful items you may wish to bring include:

Pliers
Wire cutters

Cellotape

Ribbons & feathers

Millinery Summer School, Canberra, Australia, January 2018




Adult Millinery Summer School Intensive: 22-26 January
Learn to block a hat, wire & cover a bonnet and knit a beret.

     
Learn to block a hat, wire & cover a bonnet and knit a beret. In this historical millinery summer school Aylwen will introduce you to blocked, patterned and knitted hats and bonnets. Most students should produce two hats during the course, depending on the chosen design and materials. Please leave time to do homework in the evenings. Students will be using professional hat blocks during this course and supplied with information booklets with supplier and material information.

Only 2 places left - only when your registration is paid will your place be held.



In order to fully participate in the practical exercises please bring the following materials/equipment to the first class:

Needles (millinery, mixed pack of 3-9)

Thimble (metal)

Tape measure

Fabric and paper scissors
100% Guterman Polyester thread in black and white (100m rolls will be sufficient)

Tailors chalk or tailors pencil

Apron (to cover chest and thighs)

Household pins (26 x 0.75mm)
Dressmaking pins (30 x 0.60mm)
Gladwrap and two rolls of cheap paper towel
Pencil, pen, sharpener, eraser, ruler & 2-ring folder
5mm x 30cm circular needle and set of 5 double point knitting needles, 20cm x 5mm. Birch or addi brands recommended. Do not use Lincraft brand.



Other useful items you may wish to bring include:

Pliers
Wire cutters

Cellotape

Ribbons & feathers


Registration includes refreshments, light buffet lunch, information booklet, felt hat blanks, wool, buckram, petersham, wire and use of blocks and hat stiffening. Most supplies are imported from Europe and can be rather costly. 

Ages: Adult & students of EDHDA with sewing experience. Less intensive 5 x 1/2 day millinery classes have been made available in early January for ages 12-Adult. Book online above.

Teacher: Aylwen Gardiner-Garden is a historical dressmaker & milliner in Canberra who has studied millinery at the London College of Fashion, hand embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework and historic hand sewing at the School of Historic Dress in England.

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