Beginners Hat Making Tool Kit

We’ve packed together all the must-have millinery essentials — including some hard-to-find tools — into one neat, convenient kit. Whether you’re just starting out or building your tool collection, you’ll love having these favourites all in one box!

This kit includes:

• Awl : A versatile tool for piercing through materials and perfect for pricking into feathers.
• Blocking Pins (50 included): Our all-time favourite tool! Easy to grip and super strong, ideal for pinning into wooden hat blocks.
• Berry Pins: A millinery staple, with brightly coloured heads that make them easy to spot while you’re working with materials.
• Combination Pliers: Strong and reliable, these pliers are perfect for cutting and bending wires in hat making.
• Elastic: Essential when blocking hats, great for smoothing edges and holding down ram blocks.
• Needles (Millinery Straws): Not just any needles. These specialised, stronger needles are designed to stitch through thicker millinery materials.
• Paint Brush: Used for applying stiffener to your materials.
• PVA Glue: A non-toxic, water-based glue we use for stiffening. Perfect for straws, leather, fabric and more — dilute with water for easy application.
• Pressing Cloth: Protects materials while ironing.
• Scissors: Great for cutting feathers and materials like straws and felts, with precision.
• Sewing Thread: An absolute essential. Before long, you’ll have every colour in your collection!
• Tape Measure: A universal tool, indispensable for millinery and other crafts.
• Thimble: You’ll thank us for this! Protects your fingers when hand sewing thicker materials.
• Thread Clippers: Handy little scissors for snipping off loose threads.
• Wonder Clips (20 included): These little gems changed our hat making world, they make holding materials in exactly the right spot super easy!