
They say you get a chance when you’re not thinking about it. This is what I experienced at the great festival of the black scene in Leipzig, the Wave Gotik Treffen. It happened that I met my favorite mead salesman (I have been going to a booth on the Moritzbastei for years) on the way from one festival location to the next in the tram. Without knowing that I like to make hats, he told me that he really needed a big hat, but didn’t know where to find something special. Since I had just been practicing on a small piece for a theatrical fashion show, I offered to build him his very own individual hat. We met again later in the Sixtina, an Absintheria in citycentre of Leipzig, to discuss all the details. I went straight to work! Continue reading Set sail!