Hat Making Workshop at Hills Hats
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About this event
9am, Saturday 22nd August
Cost - $60 | all materials provided - or bring a fabric of your choice
In this special workshop, go behind the scenes with the Hills Hats factory family and learn tricks of the hat-making trade.
You’ll create your own piece of bespoke headwear, with help from the Hills Hats team. Choose between two signature styles - the bucket hat or baseball cap - and pick your favourite material from the colourful Hills Hat range, or even bring your own!
You’ll wear your new hat with your head held high knowing that this incredible little factory designs and manufactures hats for the likes of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Ladi6, Shapeshifter and Tiki Taane as well as Air New Zealand and the All Blacks.
Book now- places are limited and will fill fast!
This workshop is part of Petone Settlers Museum’s newest exhibition, Enter The Hatmosphere, which celebrates 145 years of local company Hills Hats.
Organiser Petone Settlers Museum Te Whare Whakaaro
Organiser of Hat Making Workshop at Hills Hats
Situated on the shores of Wellington’s ever-changing harbour, the Petone Settlers Museum Te Whare Whakaaro o Pito-one occupies one of New Zealand’s most significant memorial buildings—the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial. The memorial was built to commemorate the arrival of the first British immigrants to Pito-one’s shores in 1840.
The Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial was officially opened on the 22nd of January 1940, and, serving also as a bathing pavilion, it became the heart of Petone’s thriving beach scene. Today, the building hosts our museum where we collect, care for and share our shared social history.
