Aleksandra Wanatowicz – Poland

Elephant Hat

Description

With this headpiece I wanted to show that it’s good to have craziness on the head and calmness in the head. Elephant Hat is a connection between lightness of the feathers and heaviness of the elephant. This Elephant is slightly balancing on the top of the hat and still keeping balance. Funny colors of the headpiece and ball is a contrast between toned gray of elephant and veil. Sometimes life is like a Circus and maintinig balance is an elephant’s feat indeed.

Materials

For elephant

• cotton covered millinery wire
• millinery buckram material
• feathers

For hat base

• hairband
• rep ribbon
• sinamay
• felt
• veil

Techniques

To create Elephant part:

• I bended cotton cavered millinery wire to shape of the elaphant,
• I cutted from buckram shape of the elephant and I used a blanket stich to connect this 2 parts
• I cutted feathers in a right shape
• With stitches and and glue I taped cutted feathers to Elephant base.

To create Hat part:

• I covered hairband with rep ribbon
• Sew on veil to covered hair band
• I made 2 parts from sinamay.
• On one part I sew on pink felt
• I sew on together two bases from sinamay and between I put Elephant part
• I covered paper ball with cutted feathers and sew on to the hat part.

At the end I sew on Elephant part with Hat part.