Author Archive | rosie boylan

My World of Hats

By rosie boylan on 02/03/2022 in Making Hats 0

Craftsmanship and Community:Pacific Partnerships

By rosie boylan on 27/09/2021 in Making Hats 0

In conversation with Caroline Baum at the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas

Hat weaving movement in the Pacific – empowering regional women

By rosie boylan on 28/10/2020 in Ethnographic, Making Hats 0

This video features in detail the work that I have been doing, collaborating with the Vanuatu hat weavers in Espirito Santo.

How I was able to bring my ideas to life on a Churchill Fellowship

By rosie boylan on 26/09/2020 in Making Hats 0

A formative opportunity for professional development investigating inspiring practices around Millinery and men’s hat design.

Pacific Island Living Magazine Story

By rosie boylan on 02/09/2019 in Making Hats 0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 Hats Off to Vanuatu, Weavers take on the World Millinery magic with a royal twist. The Pacific Brim success story. By Alex Bortoli. Weno Eli prepares pandanus fibres for hat weaving Everyone loves a ‘feel good’ story. And this is up there with the best of them. In fact, if it wasn’t […]

ABC Radio – Sydney -May 2018

By rosie boylan on 28/08/2018 in Making Hats 0

Vanuatu women weave colonial-era tools with business skills to get ahead in hat trade Link to this article https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-03/vanuatu-women-weaving-hats-rosie-boylan-convict-tool/9718942

The University of Sydney, Environment Institute – May 2018

By rosie boylan on 28/05/2018 in Ethnographic, General, Making Hats 0

Weaving, hat making and Cross-cultural skill sharing in Vanuatu

BBC Storyworks August 2017

By rosie boylan on 28/11/2017 in Making Hats 0

This article was first published as an advertisement feature on bbc.com and was created by BBC Storyworks, BBC Advertising’s commercial content team, on behalf of ŠKODA.

Pacific partnerships in headwear

By rosie boylan on 30/10/2017 in Ethnographic, Hat making, Making Hats 2

Rosie shares her hat making skills with Papua New Guinean women Recently I have been fortunate to share my hat making skills with the Bilum weavers of Papua New Guinea (PNG) through the Geneva-based International Trade Centre (ITC) – a United Nations/World Trade Organisation agency focused on trade development, funded by the Australian Government through […]