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Faunauge’s Bridal Fascinator at Creative World 2016

Handmade bridal hair ornaments consisting of cotton flowers, silver wire and feathers

You know what it’s like: newsletter after newsletter trickles into your inbox and spam folder day and night. Sometimes, however, there is something useful in it. This was the case in late autumn 2015, when I received an advertisement for the world’s largest creative fair in Frankfurt am Main, Creative World. It had a special section: “Hatmaker”. You could send in any kind of hat. As it happens, the deadline was only 14 days away. For me, that meant: GO NOW, HURRY!

First step

The idea was clear, a fascinator was needed. I grabbed scissors, wire and pliers and started building. First I made a large flower out of hand-wound silver wire leaves. I had done this successfully before, but now I wanted to make it even bigger than my first hair comb with a silver wire flower.

From shirt to flower

Then I cut out many, no very many circles from a white, old but washed business shirt and folded beautiful petals in my favourite technique from Japan. I also placed calyxes and stamens wrapped from silver wire in the centre of the flowers to make the Creative World Fascinator.

I laid out these materials
Modern Cut in one of a kind design
The shirt disassembled into small parts
A chopstick served as a pattern

Base and feathers

But a real fascinator also needs a real fascinator base. I sewed this from a felt oval cut to the right size and rep ribbon. A hair comb was attached to it and the top and bottom parts could be joined together. I still had plenty of feathers from a goose market in Wermsdorf, Eskildsen. We always get the family Christmas roast there, but they also offer single feathers in their “down room”. I put my feathers in the empty spaces between petals and Fascinatorbase.

Off to Frankfurt a.M. for Creative World!

I sent the finished piece of jewellery to Frankfurt a.M. and was informed shortly afterwards that my fascinator had been chosen as one of the best entries! I didn’t make it to the top three of the coveted places, but I was still as happy as a lark. With my whole family in tow, we went to Creative World 2016 and visited the Hatmaker stand in the huge exhibition hall. It was a wonderful day for Faunauge!

It was really cold on this Frankfurt bridge
This takes us into the hallowed halls of the world's largest creative fair
On the special area of the Hatmaker competition
Many hats were very funny
The winners with their certificates
(almost) also won
Bridal Fascinator by Faunauge

Back in Leipzig

After the hat was sent back to me in Leipzig, I worked it up a bit more. Afterwards it could be admired in the shop window of a hairdresser friend of mine, Christian Born Friseure. Very close to the registry office. I can’t wait to see which bride secures the fascinator for her wedding and then brags about wearing one of the best hats of 2016!
© Faunauge

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