HATalk Competition Entry 2022

Morgane Richard

Maker
Morgane Richard

Country
France

Name of Hat
Let's make a trip!

Description

The theme was really interesting for me, because it ask a really good and big question for me.

So I began to think about it everyday because the answer was: “I don’t know for me.”

And after just few days, I realize that I haven’t just one happy place but several, because everywhere I go and everywhere I felt good is a happy place for me.

So for my hat, I decided to trasport you in my happiest places!

I am a little traveller so the turban with this color represent a sort of backpack, the sinamay sphere represent the earth and when I thinking at all the happy places I’ve been like thinking bubble.

And when you open the sphere which is like jewelry box or musical box as you like. It seems like a treasure, my own treasure.

Inside the sphere, you’ve got all the happy places I’ve, which are represented by some memories; like fetisch ojects to remember the happy place they’re attached to.

Feather is for flamingo hostel in Vegas, Lucky charm for Dublin, Monstera leaf is for LA, Palm leaf is for Tunis, Little pina silk flowers for Milano, Tulips for Amsterdam, and abstracts pina silk flowers for London.

And all these memories have a link: this creates a garden!

My childhood happy place was the garden of my amazing great grandmother!

That’s why, everywhere I feel good, myself, calm is a happy place and remembering to me the garden of my great grandmother!

The conclusion is: Everywhere you go can be a happy place because it makes you think at something which makes you happy!

I hope you will understand what I would like to transmit in this design.

Techniques:

  • I made a turban with the technique of pin tucked turban learnt with Tina Giutini
  • I used buckram for the structure and put bronze silk satin on
  • For the sinalay circle, I made two parties, I used lurex sinamay, stiffener and wire
  • Inside, the circle, I created different elements : Leafs and tulips in leather with beads for the pistils
  • Little flowers in pina silk with leafs and beads for the center
  • Lucky charm in leather and beads
  • Abstracts flowers with pina silk to make some lightness and movement
  • And a hat pin with pink rooster feathers

Materials:

  • Bronze silk satin
  • Buckram structure for the turban
  • Cream lurex sinamay
  • Dark green, Avocado, Apple green, Poppy and Redorange Leather
  • Old Rose rooster feather
  • Pina silk
  • Glass beads
  • Wire

Materials:

  • Bronze silk satin
  • Buckram structure for the turban
  • Cream lurex sinamay
  • Dark green, Avocado, Apple green, Poppy and Redorange Leather
  • Old Rose rooster feather
  • Pina silk
  • Glass beads
  • Wire

Note: Entries have been not been edited or proofread to protect the integrity of the maker's original meaning. 

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