Bottle Garden by Bridget Bailey

£400.00

Dyed hand-rolled abaca fibre root with swirl of meadow foliage and hint of
butterfly in scientific glass vessel.

Height 32cm

Width at widest point - 21cm

This is ‘Bottle Garden, grown from millinery DNA’ made for Beyond the Brim:
Millinery is full of challenges and paradoxes, from coaxing novelty from familiar materials and making unexpected materials look reassuringly elegant, to presenting all sorts of tussles and problem-solving as if it were effortless.

How might we perceive these skills and materials of hat-making away from their familiar context as a hat?