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handmade felt woman's fedora grey with bamboo and silk decoration

Grey Fedora

Fedora or Trilby?

With this hat I wanted to have a simple, classic shape and a simple Japonesque decoration. Sort of like one of Richard Misrach's photographs of the Salton Sea, where you don't know whether you are seeing sky, sea or both.

felted wool woman's fez in purple with novelty yarn inset and handmade flower

Purple Fez

The Second Purple Hat

Here is the second purple hat that I made for my chic friend. This one looked great on her versus the cloche, which looked like it was trying to capture all her curls....

handmade felt purple flapper cloche wool silk hat art deco

Purple Cloche

Roaring 20's Hat

This cloche is one of two purple hats that I made for a very chic friend. She got to choose which one she wanted and the cloche stayed behind while the fez went with her. (It was a needed lesson in learning about very curly hair and how those images of flapper women always show them with _close cropped_ curls, not extra luxuriant ones, like my friend's hair).

handmade felted chocolate woman's cloche hat wool

Chocolate Cloche

My first Sale!

This brown cloche was made for a childhood friend who adores chocolate. Doesn't it look like a truffle? However, not very loyally I sold this hat immediately at my first craft fair. Oh, well, I will make her another one and it will be her size this time. No idea if she wears brown.

handmade felt woman's hat blue oak leaves maps

Leafy Map Hat

Hat Evolution

This hat was made for another far away friend who (like me) is fascinated with plants. A long time ago she made one of my favorite tee shirts by stenciling around oak leaves. I wore it until it disintegrated. Nowadays, her creative output is in garden design AND in the most luscious botanical Photoshop collages.