CGW Lectures & Workshops: Current

Regency Bandeau Headdress

Create a beautiful, packable headpiece for your next Jane Austen ball! Mela will guide you in designing a bandeau headpiece suitable for all hairstyles. Choose from a single, wide band accented with pearls or jewels, a narrower, double-band adorned with ostrich plumes, or a triple-strand “Grecian” style. Learn how to curl feathers along with several ways to fasten them to your headpiece. Samples will be available for you to try on before choosing. Your kit includes:

• Choice of base (single, double, or triple band)
• Choice of trimmings (gold, silver, pearls, rhinestones, colored gemstones)
• Choice of ribbons for covering the base and for adornment
• Jeweled decoration
• Elastic for optional back closure
• Optional white ostrich feathers (small additional fee)

Student supplies:

• craft scissors
• white thread
• hand sewing needles (milliner’s needles recommended)
• needle threader
• needle nose pliers to curl feathers (optional) 

Basic hand sewing knowledge is helpful, but Mela will include a bit of glue for those who are so inclined.  

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Past Events 

Passementerie: A Live Online Class

with Kenneth D. King

 Saturday, April 5th

  Join us as Kenneth teaches how to make passementerie embellishments with cords and other decorative elements. Learn how to manipulate the trims to create a sample of the work, all hands-on! 

Ribbon Work and Trimmings Series

with Mela Hoyt-Heydon

Join Mela Hoyt-Heydon the first Saturdays of April, May, and June for three different Zoom workshops using ribbon and fabric to create vintage trimmings, a variety of bows and sweet ribbon flowers. Each workshop is from 1:00-4:00 pm Pacific Standard Time.

Click the links below for more information on each workshop, plus the materials list for each.

Sign up for all three of Mela's ribbon work classes at once and receive a discounted price on the full series!

The Zoom links for each class will be emailed to registered participants on the evening before the class, by 9pm PST. Please ensure that you will be available for all THREE classes before registering for this series. If you are not sure of your schedule, each of these classes will be available to register for individually.

Each class is $30 for members, $35 for non-members, or $75/95 for the full series.

Tips on Fitting Yourself: Online Class

with Sarah Veblen

Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm to 2:30pm (PT)

Online Workshop

"Build a Spool Holder"

With Brittany Joyner

 Online Lecture

"Spatterdashes"

With Haleh Risdana

Sunday March 26, 2023 at 12:00pm (PST)