New pieces with flowers and sinamay.

Sinamay bag with netting and beading with 

handmade flower detail 

Some new pieces .

    

          Hand dyed straw with dove grey duck feathers.

                              

Sombreros para el frio de Enero y Febrero.

new pieces

Over the last few months i have been working on different pieces, some custom pieces for clients and others for the shop Atlantis Calle Bengoetxea 1, on the corner of Calle Okendo in San Sebastian . 

I have been investigating with beading and feathers and working with natural dying methods with flowers. I have continued to work with felts recently with beaver hair felt, the last two pieces I made were straw.all my pieces are made by hand sometimes using wooden moulds and sometimes making my own moulds are working the felt or straw by hand with steam.here are a few of my latest pieces.

Purple felt with sculpted feather and beaded detail 

with black silk net and black silk band.

now in Gallery Ekain San Sebastian .

                               Black straw top hat with hand made and dyed yellow flowers detail
                                               on a vintage french ribbon with 1940´s buckle.

various felt hand moulded hats 

 

Beaded bow brooch

                                         

                                          Hand moulded straw hat with vintage net detail.                          

J.H Lartigue.

Pasando el rato con J.H Lartigue. Some great hats .
http://www.amadelio.org/volumes_entries/lartigue/lartigue_slide/index.html

                     Viva los complementos una manera        

                        de reinventar tu armario !!

Las regulaciones que entraron en vigor durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial junto con una grave escasez de materiales hicieron que la "haute couture" parisina  frenara su actividad. Incluso las horquillas desaparecieron del mercado, por lo tanto las mujeres no podían aguantar el pelo. Sombreros atrajo la atención de las mujeres ; y sus estilos se hicieron mucho más variados, ya que podían cubrir el pelo suelto y aportar elegancia a la ropa diario de manera rápida. Además estos artículos no estaban regulados. Sombreros elaborados como los de turbantes y sombreros de paja con un montón de adornos florales fueron un contraste efectivo a los vestidos restringidas en París.

                                       
                                   

Regulations that came into force during World War II combined with a serious shortage of materials meant that Parisian "haute couture" had to slow down its activity. Even hairpins disappeared from the market, so women could not put up their hair. Hats attracted women's attention and their styles became much more varied because they could cover undressed hair and bring quick elegance to plain clothing; in addition, they were not regulated items. Elaborate hats such as high-rising turbans and straw hats with plenty of floral ornament were an effective contrast to the restricted dresses in Paris.    

                           

                              

Some new pieces photographed in Alejandro Garmendia's Paintings

Some new pieces  photographed in Alejandro Garmendia's Paintings, my inspiration.