millinery supply sources


Millinery / Hat Making Supplies:

  • Alfonso Bini — Hat blocks
  • Concord Merchandise — Untrimmed hats & trimmings.
  • Cyril J. Preston — (Australia)
  • Fred's Hat Blocks
  • From the Neck Up Top pickExcellent Book with instructions on hatmaking.
  • Hat Shapers — Sells blocks to shape hat blanks. Also instructions on felting.
  • Hats by Leko Top pick — Sells fashion hats, finished and unfinished, straw, felt, and hatmaking tools, like steamers, pins, blocks, etc.
  • Homegroan.com — Vintage hat blocks & millinery supplies.
  • HouseFabric.com — Buckram & horsehair braid.
  • How2Hats — Books, hatblocks and more
  • Judith M Millinery Supply Top pick — Sells premade hats and millinery supplies: trims, petersham, blanks, blocks, buckram, crinoline, straw cloth, notions, wires, adhesives, sizing, hat pins, wool felt, etc. Also sells hat kits.
  • Lynn McMasters Top pick — She sells patterns for late Renaissance head coverings (cauls, coifs, biggins, armings caps, etc), and hat patterns that can be used as the basis for many other hats, like her "Universal Oval Brim Straight Sides" pattern.
  • MacCulloch & Wallis — (UK) Hat blocks, millinery fabric & wire, trim, glues, etc.
  • Miller's Millinery — Sells women's 19th c. bonnet forms, hoods, headdresses, and hats. Also, millinery supplies, men's hats and children's hats.
  • Millinery Suppliers List
  • Pattern Studio — Hat blocks, buckram frames, braid, ribbons, fabrics, veiling, flowers, feathers, etc.
  • Richard the Thread — Buckram, wire, needles, glue, etc.
  • Theatre House — Carries buckram hat frames, hat forms, wigs, etc
  • Tressa — (Switzerland) Horsehair, braid, trim, etc.
  • Zeeman Corp — Buckram, braid, crinoline, sizing, etc.

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