Hourik Bazikian – Armenia

ELEGANCE

Category: Traditional

Description

Concept of this theme I try to create something totally different, new and original headpiece.

Before to do this creation I think about meaning of the theme “joining two or more things together and result to form one thing”. So, I choose two different pieces, one crown and one brim for this special design. Generally for creating and making hats we use crowns in top part of the hat and brims in below part of the hat.

This time I want to be more creative I make some changes on my design rules, I blocked the crown and brim separately then I decided to change the place of brim part of the hat and bring it on the top, It means brim on the crown then I stitched together. And the result of my design was joining two different shapes together and creating one original headpiece.

Materials

• Sinamay
• Petersham Ribbon size ¾” (19mm)
• Wire (white cotton)
• Hat Elastic
• Stiffener
• Stamen for flowers
• Polyester Threads (three colors)
• nail polish (two colors – for coloring the stamens)

Techniques

• Using brim block and crown block (size 57cm).
• For each blocks cut three squares of sinamay, spray with water and blocked all three layers (pulled separately) then spray with stiffener.
• After dry, iron directly on the sinamay.
• Remove the brim and the crown from the block and cut away the unblocked sinamay.
• Stitching the wire around the brim and crown parts.
• Also stitching the Petersham Ribbon around the brim and crown.
• Then stitching the brim parts on crown parts.
• Attaching the elastic and sewing.
• To make the flowers for the trimming used unblocked sinamay, coloring the white stamen with nail polish in two color (yellow and pink). And attached one of them on the brim and another one under the brim part.
• Also cutting the sinamay on the bias strip 40cm x 5cm, fold in half and then fold both edges over to the center of the strip to hide the raw edges, then cut off both ends. Wrap around a wood stick and spray with water after dry attached on the brim.