Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Prepare to block and shape complex millinery
- Analyse the shapes evident in the millinery design
- Examine crown and brim shapes of millinery design
- Identify other shapes and secondary components that will need to be blocked
- Select millinery materials compatible with design and shapes to be blocked
- Select covering and foundation materials for crown and brim
- Select covering and foundation materials for blocked secondary components
- Select and prepare block
- Block the complex shapes by hand
- Perform initial and final blocking and shaping by hand
- Dry block and shape pieces or set on the hat blocks
- Add stiffening to the blocked shapes, where required, according to the performance characteristics of the millinery materials
- Conduct work according to workplace procedures
- Prepare blocked shapes for the next step in the millinery production process