Rachel Oates – United Kingdom

Earth

Description

When creating this piece my inspiration was the globe seen from space with its blue oceans, the green for the continents & the swirl of the white clouds of our atmosphere. Our planet is an example of equilibrium; all the elements came together to create our beautiful planet. This design is like our world, all the swirls form a structural part of the hat, like the water, our atmosphere & the land we live on all have to be in equilibrium for our planet to survive. Remove one element or one swirl & that most precious balance is lost.

Materials

• Sinamay
• Wire
• Sundries
• Petersham
• Elastic

Techniques

• Blocking of base
• Rolling & shaping the sinamay
• Creating wire structure
• Hand sewing all of this piece sewn by hand