Kingsley Asim-Ita – Nigeria

‘Beauty of the Earth’

Category: Modern

Description

‘Beauty of the earth’ God made them all…

The headpiece basically is made from elements of Nature. Flowers, feathers and birds are all elements from Nature.

The coming together of these elements of Nature has been put together to make this headpiece and also gives it a modern feel. Finally the modern age feel has been put into place by fitting the Base on the wire headband to make it suspended and stand making all the natural elements used visible. The combination of these features makes the headpiece CLASSY. ELEGANT. DRAMATIC. With a modern feel.

Materials

• Sinamay
• Taffeta fabric
• Velvet material
• Ready made bird
• Cock feathers
• Wire to make head band
• Neck elastic

Techniques

• Hand made flower
• Blocked Base
• Handmade head band wire.
• Basically head wire Base is made and then the Base is stitched on it.
• Flower is handmade and then curled and fixed on the blocked sinamay Base.
• Kindly be informed that taffeta was placed on the sinamay to block the Base.
• Finally the flowers are fixed and twisted to the side and then the cock feathers fixed on the tip end of the flower.