Language of Millinery with Bridget Bailey
“Now I think of millinery as a ‘language’ in a way I didn’t while I was making hats”
Wednesday 14th May
12.30pm - 1.15pm
Bridget talks about her pathway to becoming an artist using the skills and techniques from her millinery career to express her ideas — Micro sinamay blocking to make a grape, all the rolling-skill and curve-control of working with Parisisal straw, compressed into a tiny pea-pod, or using the balance and flow that would go into a hat to arrange a whole installation, instead of placing it on a head…