Name: Constance Spry Gossamer
SKU: 3364
Price: 250.00 CAD
Availability: InStock

Constance Spry Gossamer

$250.00

1 in stock

This gossamer hat has the most vivid display of sequined flowers arranged with sequined ribbons across the hat. This millinery composition led me to to the story of Constance Spry, a British educator, florist and author. In the early 1900’s Constance’s passion for flowers transformed the art of flower arrangement and inspired generations. She admired the beauty and diversity of flowers, foliage and branches. She looked to the Dutch painters for inspiration and unusual materials in her arrangements. Her company created the flower arrangements for two royal weddings and she was appointed an OBE in 1953.

I would like to think she would love this hat. Constance understood the therapeutic benefits of working with flowers and would have loved to have had this “arrangement” to wear atop her head, anytime. For those of you who love to work with flowers/nature, use flowers as a creative expression and understand their therapeutic benefits and emotional expression… this one is for you.

1 in stock

Description

The Gossamer hat is a Trish Raine-developed hat, handmade by fusing merino wool and chiffon silk in a process of wet felting (nuno felting). This hat has silk on the outside of the hat, and is lined with a different silk. A thin layer of merino wool is felted between the two layers of silk essentially “gluing” them together. This means that it will be comfortable on your head, soft on your hair and will breathe, allowing air to flow right through.

This gossamer hat is a VERY thin felt and as such does not have much structure to it, so will easily fold up in a purse. Each fold is hand-sewn into place to keep the shape of the hat. This hat is wonderful for fall or spring, or if you have cooler summer nights. It is good in the winter, but not warm enough for very cold temperatures (but fits fabulously under a hood)! Perfect to be worn inside, and with silk as a liner it is gentle on one’s scalp if experiencing hair loss.

This hat fits a larger-sized head 23.25-24.00″. If you have questions about fit, please let me know.

“Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and don’t if you don’t want to be. Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylised and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn. Open your mind to every form of beauty”. – Constance Spry

Constance Spry Gossamer