2013 Hat Festival Video
Video via Watershed PR
Hat Festival Bags
The brand new Bridport Hat Festival bags have arrived! Fresh design for 2013, available in six different colours, yours for just £5 at the Hat Auction (BWDC 23 Aug), Ropemakers Quiz (27 Aug), from Snooks the Hatters during opening hours, and of course at the Bridport Hat Festival itself.
Hat Festival Waltz
Our patron Hank Wangford has written this wonderful song for us called “The Bridport Hat Festival Waltz”. Hear it live for the first time when he plays the opening concert of the 2013 Festival on Friday evening, 6th September, at Bridport Arts Centre.
2013 Hat Making Competition
Win £500 by entering the Bridport Hat Festival Milliners & Hatters Open Competition, get started today. Please download, print and display the competition poster.
Plans for 2013 Under Way
Updates for the 2013 Bridport Hat Festival will appear on this website as they are confirmed. Meanwhile, the busy 2013 committee were on a brief hat break…
2012 First Prize ‘Spiral Bean’ by Matthew Eluwande
The first thing I did in making this hat is drawing up the sketch. Afterwards I moulded a base in bean shape and proceed by cutting bias from black and ivory sinamay. The pleating aspect is the most important, difficult and creative part in making the spiral bean. I have to lay the sinamay bias …
2012 Second Prize ‘Fossil-Eyes’ by Elizabeth Jennings
The position of Bridport as the gateway town to the world famous heritage site of the Jurassic coast was the inspiration for this hat. A play on the word fossilise, the hat shows an image of a section through an ammonite accented by a beautiful pair of eyes from a tiger, now itself an endangered …
2012 Third Prize ‘Silk Frog Hat’ by Elizabeth Hurst
My blocked silk frog hat has been inspired by Monet’s water lily garden paintings, especially the repeated design of the free hand machine embroidery on the veiling. This moves around freely and can change its appearance making it look mysterious and nebulous like the atmosphere evoked in the paintings. A handcrafted silk dupion frog …
Quirkiest Adults Hats
1st Prize of £100 went to Theo Langton for his rams horn helmet. 2nd Prize of £50 went to Louise Braddock for her Colmer’s Hill headgear Both prizes sponsored by The Susquehana Hat Company. (click on the images for a larger view).
Boys and Girls Winners
£50 Prize for Best Boy’s Hat went to Llewelyn Davies for his Planet hat. and £50 Prize for Best Girl’s Hat went to Iola Carter Knibbs for her Cat in the Hat hat. Both prizes sponsored by Nantes Solicitors. (Click on the images for a larger view).