Jaine Davies – USA

TRAPEZE

Description

I absolutely love hats that look like they defy gravity. The Jinsin was so gorgeous to play around with and form different shapes. When I got it to a shape I liked I realized that it could have an interestingly shaped base so I blocked a circle and gave a ‘yin & yang’ cut into it (there is another hat with the other half).

The red silk was such a lush color against the black and taupe, I made poppies out of it with flower making tools, left a rough edge to balance with the sharpness of the stripes and added crystal centers for sparkle against the fringe stamens.

Materials

• Jinsin
• silk
• sinamay
• wire
• boning
• dupioni silk (flower)
• Austrian crystal (flower)
• fringing (flower)
• polystyrene ball (flower)
• Wire (flower)

Techniques

• Silk stiffened and flowers formed with hot flower irons
• Sinamay base steamed, blocked, and cut to shape
• Silk bias binding and rouleaux loops made
• Jinsin steamed and shaped