Category: Hat Blocks
After completion, each of the three blocks was given to a different milliner to test. As of Kim Fraser proprietor of and creative talent behind of Hatnip Hats…
After repairing both the holes in the scan, I refined the 3D model smoothing out the remaining damage and adding the necessary features to transform the hat model…
I knew when I started my hat block project I wanted to try to use what I learned from the Kim block in a restoration project. One of…
This post is called Kim Block: Cutting in Wood. It could just as easily be called Kim Block: In Which Many Mistakes Were Made. The learning curve for…
After spending so much time working on this through a computer screen it was really exciting to finally start cutting. I used a peice of pink foam 24…
After getting such a clean scan of the original hat I was excited to start working on altering the scan into a hat block. To convert my hat…
In a very exciting turn of events, The Kim Block Project was displayed at this year’s USITT as part of ShopBot’s Presentation. They also featured my project to…
Kim’s hat block project is an outgrowth of my 3D printed hat block project. The goal of this project was to scan an extant vintage hat, reverse engineer…
Last semester I had the amazing opportunity to take Rachel Pollack’s Millinery course. I had never made hats before and the learning process was a ton of fun….