Vicky Arthur – United Kingdom

Category: Traditional

Description

A fusion of silk flowers with ostrich feathers. Using traditional methods to block my hand dye sinamay to nake a base for the hat.

Materials

• Ostrich feathers
• Silk flowers
• Sinamay
• Headband
• Swarovski crystals

Techniques

• Dyed sinamay to match the feathers.
• Blocked small sinamay base
• Curled feathers
• Sewed feathers to hat
• I made a posy with the silk flowers to sit in the middle of hat.