De Lew Designs Australia Millinery, Millinery supplies, Artist and Giftware

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About De Lew

( Donna Lewis )

De Lew Designs arose from Donna’s participation in and successful completion of three years of nationally recognised Tertiary training within Millinery ( Headwear ) at TAFE NSW, Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus. During Donna’s training she was encouraged to enter her Millinery into numerous competitions and achieved much success, which in turn, due to word of mouth, began the demand for Donnas Millinery pieces for various race meetings and special events. With the encouragement of her TAFE teacher and family, Donna registered De Lew Designs Australia as a business on the 23rd February 2004.



As demand for De Lew Designs grew the need to source Millinery Supplies was not always an easy task. There were three major Millinery suppliers within Australia, one based in Sydney the other based in Melbourne and one in QLD. Due to Wagga Wagga’s geographical isolation, access to such supplies proved to be quite expensive requiring overnight trips to personally visit suppliers as no suppliers at this stage had a website. Dealings over the phone to order supplies proved unsatisfactory due to difficulty-choosing colours etc, fellow milliners were having to make trips to the city to access supplies as well which is about a 5hr drive.

It was obvious that rural Australia required a Millinery Supplier also. Two years of intensive worldwide researching, resourcing and liaising resulted in De Lew Designs Australia offering not only affordable handmade Millinery but also affordable and accessible Millinery Supplies providing an alternative, for, at that stage, regional NSW milliners. Every effort was made to source Australian products however the majority of our supplies must be imported. De Lew Designs now imports and maintains solid business relationships with many manufacturers worldwide.



To minimise the frustrations associated with ordering supplies, De Lew Designs (Donna) developed an e-commerce website (with the help of a programme called os-commerce) which sells their Millinery and Millinery Supplies online. All products are accompanied with a description and photograph so that customers know exactly what they are getting when they place an order. De Lew Designs Australia goes a step further to please their customers and also offers custom dying of many of their products and go out of their way to source supplies not currently offered on the website. De Lew Designs happily refers customers to other suppliers / contacts if they are not able to assist the customer for some reason.





Attention to detail, (as evidenced by the hand blocking and meticulous hand stitching by Donna of all De Lew Designs Millinery pieces.), exceptional customer service, dedication to the craft of Millinery, enthusiasm, passion and a genuine love for creativity is what has contributed to the rapid growth of De Lew Designs Australia.



De Lew Designs Australia now ships Millinery and Millinery supplies all over the world and to every state and Territory within Australia.