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Well…. I’ve come into the modern world now.. check out my instagram @lisa_burrows_hats. That said, I’ll be using that for updates from now on….
News!
Well it’s all very exciting for me as I’ve now found a studio at New Brewery Arts in the centre of Cirencester… so I’ve been working hard to fill it up with new stock in gorgeous neon summer colours. It’s light and spacious with plenty of display area and It’s a joy to have the […]
A Proactive Start to 2023!
It’s been an unsettled few years for me personally and professionally but, thankfully, there has been an increasing stream of business and a continuing creativity in action! The small, but friendly studio, is now becoming too small for the stock and to have comfortable appointments and fittings so I’m currently searching for new premises to […]
Spring spring
Dyed silk twill base with silk velvet flowers and silk satin foliage and a dyed & wired net, dramatic but light! One way to bring the two contrasting colours of an outfit together…… (oh, and an excuse to try out my new electric flower-making tools!)
CAPS!
Hi, I recently had a customer in who had a suit he had had made 40yrs previously which he could no longer fit into. He asked me if I could make him a hat out of it as he could not bear to part with it and the tweed was in excellent condition. He was […]
2018
H, I’ve been quiet for a while as I’m no expert at IT (I’d rather make hats and talk to people!) but I feel a post or two is very overdue! In 2018 I turned 50yrs and after 30 yrs in millinery decided to have a little break and review my options which led me […]
Stephen Jones
What a wonderful experience it was to meet my millinery hero Stephen Jones last week. I went to a talk at the Dirty Martini cocktail bar in Monument, London as part of the London Hat Week. The talk was an informal chat between Hilary Alexander (former fashion editor of The Daily Telegraph, amongst other things), […]
Doing my bit……
My business is based in Taunton, county town of Somerset. It is a fairly large town with a sprawling shopping area that has evolved rather than been designed with any identifiable centre, and, as with most towns now, has a fair amount of empty, ugly, dated buildings no longer fit for the large shops that […]
