Colonial Williamsburg Historic Trades & Skills Demonstrations: Milliner & Journeyman Founder

The Colonial Williamsburg Historic Trades and Skills community uses 18th-century tools and techniques to apprentice in and eventually master more than 20 historic trades and skills. These world-renowned experts not only make goods and provide services to the Historic Area, they also consult and produce for other cultural institutions around the world. Milliners design, make, and sell fashionable accessories and garments for women, including hats, caps, cloaks, gloves, and decorative trims, and mantua-makers are skilled dressmakers who measure, cut, fit, and sew women's gowns and other fitted garments to the latest fashions.