As a professional milliner and founder of The Artful Hat Company, Jilly designs hats, fascinators and adornments for all seasons, events and celebrations. Made in strong, vibrant colours using sumptuous materials and glamorous embellishments, her pieces are always stylish and very feminine. Every piece can also be made in any colour and exactly to the client’s requirements.

Made mainly from sensual silk or tactile velvet, the structured soft hats are often historically inspired and voice an echo from the past but shout a contemporary look. She makes hats for every occasion, from the most elaborate event to everyday wear, selling a great many velvet hats in the winter.

Her adornments include gorgeous hand kintted and fringed wraps, velvet scarves, colourful neck pieces and felted corsages.

Every one of her hats or adornments will beautify your life.

She gets her sense of colour and balance from her illegitimate grandfather, the famous bohemian painter Augustus John and her dramatic style from my theatrical background, having spent 25 years working in all aspects of theatre. About 12 years ago she undertook further training in Millinery at The London College of Fashion and having run successful hat shops in Bristol and Barnstaple, now exhibits at major wedding and craft shows. She gives workshops on millinery techniques and welcomes commissions for new designs.


e: jilly.collins@btinternet.com
w:http://www.theartfulhatcompany.co.uk