Wild Sinamay Hats

Sinamay is an amazing fabric for hat making. It’s great to work with and can easily be manipulated to form almost any kind of shape. In this book you’ll learn how to cut it, how to wire edges and how to form complete hats. You can also use the pieces you create to make brims for existing crowns.

This is an ideal way to start creating hats. It requires no special equipment and will give you a feel for sinamay. Using sinamay in this ‘freeform’ way is very addictive, as the possibilities it offers are almost endless. Sinamay is great to work with and can easily be manipulated to form almost any kind of shape.

Every technique is detailed for you with photographs and instructions, so you’ll learn really quickly. Experiment with crowns cut from out-dated hats and see how you can turn them into contemporary creations with a real ‘wow’ factor