Louise Björnram – Sweden

Category: Traditional

Description

When I think fusion, I think of combining materials in a flow without visable edges. I focused on the flow when I made my hat, creating a fusion of three items: a hat, a shawl, and a ring, that creates a flow and moves when used.

Materials

• Millinery wire
• Sinamay
• Silk chiffon
• Metal ring
• Pearls
• Thread

Techniques

• Blocked the sinamay around a horn shaped hat block.
• Made a wire base based on the block.
• Sewed the Sinamay around the wire base.
• Hemmed the silk chiffon by hand and sewed it on to the hat.
• Sewed three pearls on the metal ring and fastned it to the silk chiffon.