Straw Hat Gallery 3
Two Pairs of Poppies
Cute orange viscose straw featuring four orange and red handmade poppies.
Bumble Bee
Yellow straw with black sinamay inset. Sinamay and tiny yellow silk bow trim.
Paper Bow
Paper panama with machine embroidered black bow. A traditional cute cloche shape with interesting split brim.
Golden Raffia
Paper panama featuring cutouts in brim and gold flecked natural sinamay with frayed edges.
Garden Party Revisited
Straw cloche shape with witty profusion of handmade flowers on front. Very pretty.
Two Orange Poppies
Large navy semi-model braid hat trimmed with two huge hand-made sinamay poppies.
Rachael's Racewear
My personal hat for the 2000 Melbourne Cup. The flowers are my own pattern and are tooled leather.
Pink Lady
Fuschia pink sinamay adorned with handmade rose and a profusion of stripped coque feathers.
Pretty in Lime
Spectacular lime green acid washed ostrich feathers are both the brim and trim. A large but remarkably light hat.
Red Camelia
Semi-model ramie weave straw with an eye-catching red leather camelia as the focus.
Sweet Lemon
Adorable lemon raffia straw with hand-made and hand-painted rose to match. Two ostrich feathers complete the elegant line.
Mother's Camelia
Designed for and worn by my mother for the 2000 Melbourne Cup.
Red Arrow
Red sinamay with asymmetrical brim and single cut feather.
Asymmetrical Apple
Same shape as Red Arrow with a simple trim of a stylized knot.
Flirtateous in Flannel
Created for an exhibition, this hat is a white viscose with the tip dyed pink. Australian
flannel flowers are the trim.
Racy Magenta
Classic shape in magenta sinamay. The band was embroidered to match the client's lace skirt.
One Quill
A lovely corn-coloured straw with an interesting double-layered brim. Trimmed
with a single acid-burnt ostrich feather and a twist of sinamay.
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