Wendy Diggles – Australia

Category: Traditional

Description

I spent many years designing and making tiaras, crowns and jewelry, Millinery is a new passion for me and I naturally want to combine both disciplines to create something unique that showcases my skills. This piece is a fusion of all I have learnt and love, how i express myself, a fusion of millinery and jewelry, of hard and soft of Matt and shine, of precious and mundane. Each piece holds up on its own but the two fuse together to create my work.The shapes textures, substances and traditional techniques i’ve utilized represent a fusion of of skills and design for me.

Materials

• Para-sisal Straw
• brass
• rose gold plating

Techniques

• Blocking
• machine and hand stitching
• hand molding
• soldering
• plating
• metal work pliers