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?