Over the past few weeks I have been collaborating with a jeweller and an electroplater in the making of a king’s crown. I talk paper patterns and ermine, jewels and velvet. Alice talks sulphides, beating brass and gold baths and we both hope the size will be right. I now know why crowns have fur […]
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Hi, welcome to my hatters blog. As a passionate hat maker of 30 years, I am recently returned to Australia from a global research trip looking at historic and contemporary headwear. Fortunate to receive a Winston Churchill fellowship, I explored headwear design in Japan, Europe, UK and USA. I visited museum collections, hat manufacturers, hat […]
