Ultimate Hat Making Starter Kit

We’ve packed together all the must-have millinery essentials, including some hard-to-find tools and even a classic button style hat block, 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!

Button Style Hat Block
Manufactured in Australia by Hat Blocks Australia, this hat block is the ultimate versatile shape for creating endless designs. With an easy-to-pin, classic shape measuring 6" in diameter and 1.5" deep, it’s a piece you’ll use constantly for your clients’ hats. Your block also comes with a sturdy hat stand and corkscrew for secure use.

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!