Sponsors

Many thanks to all our sponsors, we couldn't do it without you.

The Essential Hat

A renowned, award winning hat shop, formerly in Prahran East, now in Malvern, Melbourne, Australia.

Catherine Ellen, owner of The Essential Hat, is the founder and organiser of MIMC.

Millinery Association of Australia

A not-for-profit organisation committed to generating public awareness of millinery and encourage the wearing of hats.

Australia's oldest millinery supply business.
Supplying quality millinery materials for your creativity.
Felt, Straw and Panama unfinshed Hat Bodies; Sinamay; Braids; Millinery Ribbons; Crinoline; Fosshape; Wire; Flowers and Feather Flowers.
Supplies are available online 24/7 (and International Shipping) and in-store at Embellish® Atelier: 128 Victoria Road, Rozelle, NSW 2039 1300HATTER

Hatters Millinery School

Here you will find all our exciting opportunities to learn the art of millinery - from workshops to online tutorials and blog articles, we've got you covered!

Millinery Hub

Discover Millinery Hub (formerly Torb & Reiner), your leading supplier of millinery products and materials in Australia.
High-quality, handpicked millinery supplies brought to you by industry experts.
Unbeatable customer service.

House of Adorn

House of Adorn is a leading international online supplier of Millinery Materials, including Sinamay, Parisisal, Silk Abaca, Jinsin, Thermoplastics, Feathers, Flowers Making Tools, and other Essentials. We also supply Dance Trimmings, Fabrics, and Embellishments.
We offer same day dispatch and express shipping World-Wide. Please feel free to contact us anytime via email, phone, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, and we would be more than happy to help.

Hat Academy

Grow your millinery passion by learning hat making techniques with creative video tutorials.

HATalk e-magazine

HATalk, the e-magazine for those who make hats. HATalk helps you connect with the millinery world to share your passion for hats.

Hat Blocks Australia

Australia’s most familiar, family owned Block Maker, supplying quality Hat Blocks to Milliners and Hat Makers, globally.
We have been supporters of local and Interstate Millinery Conventions since our beginnings in 2000. We love to see old and new millinery faces and we always feel honoured to supply your tools of the trade!

Guy Morse-Brown

Guy Morse-Brown, Block Makers, United Kingdom. Dedicated to providing you with the best hat blocks you can buy – here at Guy Morse-Brown, our focus is firmly on working with you to create blocks that will be the starting point for your own designs. Being a workshop we appreciate good quality tools (you can't have too many chisels, right?) and seek to provide you with the best blocks and blocking tools so that they will delight and serve you for many years. Get in touch with us and share your ideas, let us know what you want to make, we'd love to hear from you. For inspiration visit our website to see the full range of hat blocks, tools and accessories.

The HAT magazine

The Hat Magazine is the voice of the hat trade worldwide and is unceasing in the promotion of the making and wearing of hats.

Kata Design

Kata Design is illustrator and educator Kate Medved.

She is an accomplished and experienced digital communications designer, as well as a talented fashion illustrator.

Christine Waring Designer Millinery

Christine has been passionately working and designing from her inner-city Canberra studio for 34 years.

Christine has been recognised as one of Australia's leading professional milliners.

Fusing sculptural form with fashion, flair with essential edge, Christine's hats are sometimes art, often fun, but always so very wearable. Original creative lines with professional skill for flawless fit and finish.

Hatlines magazine

Magazine of the Dutch Hat Association. Read all about hat events, milliners & suppliers, tips & techniques and much more. Available in Dutch and English.

Supporters

Millinery.Info

Millinery.Info is a wealth of knowledge with online resources including galleries, directories and millinery dictionary. Millinery.Info produces a monthly podcast interviewing leaders in the millinery industry from across the globe.

Todd Anthony

Todd Anthony is a vegan design consultant and practitioner a designer working across product development marketing, public relations and fashion events.

He is the lead of fashion and costume at the LCI Melbourne. At the heart of Todd's practice is the protection of animals and their welfare. Along with consulting to numerous fashion businesses on how to use best practice for design in this space, Todd also travels the globe to speak at conferences regarding new textile sciences in the fashion space. Todd spoke at a conference in Tokyo last year about the psychology behind fashion and just a few weeks ago in Chicago and Paris on the topic of defensive textiles post coronavirus