Lynn Leach – United Kingdom

Britannia Rules The Waves

Description

My hat is based on the Timeless song, ‘Rule Britannia’ and the Timeless colours of Red, White and Blue.

The sentence Britannia Rule the Waves comes to mind when I think of this song so therefore I wanted to make a hat to reflect that, and make a hat with waves and water splashes.

I tried to incorporate waves and swirls using the blue silk abaca and for the feathers to form splashes.

Adding the trident and union jack to this hat enhances the Timeless theme of this piece.

Materials

• Sinamay
• Vintage netting
• Vintage polyester type material
• Abaca
• Ready made trident
• Nagorie feathers
• Feather mount
• Wire
• Satin lining
• Petersham
• Felt
• Beads
  3 small roses

Techniques

• Button base blocked
• Base cut and brim wire sewn in place
• Vintage netting sewn to base
• Tall wave blocked, cut to shape, wired and edged.
• Trident sewn to base
• Tall wave sewn to base.
• White feather mount sewn to wave
• Abaca hand edged, dampened and sewn to button base to form a wave base
• Curled white nagorie feather sewn on to base
• Curled red and blue nagorie feather attached to side of hat
• Flag shape cut from felt
• Flag hand beaded to form the union jack
• Vintage material with the leftover netting used to create to back rosette
• Rosette sewn to back of the hat.
• 3 small roses added to back of the hat
• Elastic sewn to underside of hat
• Union jack lining sewn to underside to hat
• Underside of hat finished with petersham