Most Elegantly-Hatted Couple
Most Elegantly-Hatted Couple winners Ronnie & Wendy Murray of West Bay – Bridport Hat Festival 2013 © Deirdre Snook
Competitions
Best Millinery Display
Best Millinery Display (for trade stands) – prize donor Brain Tumour Research’s Hugh Adams with winner Melanie Stratford of Gothic Hats – Bridport Hat Festival 2013 © Deirdre Snook
Best Hatted Dog
Best Hatted Dog winner Mavis with owner Teresa Verney, Betsy and Jackson Brookes, and prize sponsor Mark of Animal House – Bridport Hat Festival 2013 © Elizabeth Paine
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.
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).