Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare millinery tools, equipment and work area
- Analyse millinery pattern requirements
- Design information in analysed and specifications are interpreted to identify component shapes of the millinery item
- Hat blocks needed to achieve the crown and brim shapes of the design are determined
- Hat blocks are selected according to design and head size
- Hat blocks are prepared
- Medium to be used for making the patterns is selected and prepared
- Develop and test millinery patterns
- Medium is applied to hat blocks
- Millinery design lines are marked onto pattern medium according to specifications of millinery design
- Design proportions are checked in relation to millinery design and placement of the hat on the head
- First patterns are cut by applying pattern-making techniques for millinery
- Patterns aretested by making a mock-up or toile in paper or other millinery foundation material
- Full patterns suitable for single-layer cutting are made for the hat
- Finalise patterns