Making Wide-brim Straws from 1960's Wooden Hat Blocks

It's Sinamay all the way for me when creating hats for summer weddings and garden party galas. What a great medium to work with, particularly when shaping high crowned beauties on vintage wooden hat blocks.

The finished project is so light and airy as to be almost weightless when worn.

I'm using a number of vintage1960's blocks previously owned by the great Toronto designer Philip Warde, to make the summer straws which are now on sale at the Gallery Upstairs in Milton.