Leominster & Herefordshire
HAT FESTIVAL

July - September 2004

H A T S C A P E   F E S T I V A L

The Hatscape hat festival took it's inspiration from
local history and costume collections and provided an opportunity for local artists, designers, groups and individuals to create hats and head gear and to take
part in the festival events!

T H E    B R I E F

WHAT?
To make any kind of hat from wool and any local natural or recycled materials
IT MUST BE WEARABLE!

WHO?
Anyone could take part…

• as an individual or as a group
• as a group working with an artist
• by taking part in a workshop

HOW?
Participants registered their interest by contacting the Woolgathers
on: 01588 640017
info@woolgatherers.net

THE FESTIVAL

Friday 10th Sept -Sunday 12th Sept, Events included...

Launch of weekend, exhibition of hats and Hatart viewing.

Straw Plaiting workshop with Veronica Main and Mad Hatters Tea Party.

Hat Pool Tax Zone and Farmers Market!!!! (Wear a hat or else...) Proceeds to WWOP "We Want Our Pool."

Hatting and millinery workshops for adults and children with Sharon Morgan, felt making workshops with Marietta Alker.

Display of hats from the Wade Costume Collection, Berrington Hall.

Read about >>Hat Histories<<

For more information about the Hatscape project you can view
>>The Report<<.

W O R K S H O P S

Aim:
To make a hat/helmet/head gear yourself and bring it to the Lion Ballroom Hat Exhibition by Friday 10th Sept.
Adults and children could take part in workshops such as:

Feltmaking with Artist
Angela Martin

Hatmaking & Millinery day with Hatmaker
Sharon Morgan

Creative Hats, with Textile Artist
Jenni Stuart Anderson.

Feltmaking, with feltmaker
Marietta Alker

Straw Hatting and Plaiting with Straw Hatter
Veronica Main

Other workshops were also run at Berrington Hall.

THE EXHIBTITIONS

The hatscape artists were:
Celia Kibblewhite
Marietta Alker
Jenni Stuart-Anderson
Debbie Yates
Harriet Hill
Angela Martin
Anne Belgrave
Caroline Hands
Sharon Morgan
Veronica Main

These individuals worked with groups including:
Teme Valley Youth Project
Age Concern
Mind
Echo
The Marches Family network
The Women's Institute
and Leominster Museum
to produce a range of hats made from recycled and/or natural materials and wool to exhibit over the hat festival weekend.

"Such wonderful innovative variety, accessible for all ages, smile raising!" Visitor to Hatscape 11/09/04

"I thoroughly enjoyed working with Teme Valley YP... Also appreciated being pushed into making something that I wouldn't otherwise (hat)." Harriet Hill 05/10/04

" Great to walk around Leominster on the saturday hearing people chatting about Hatscape."Steering group members 11/10/04

H A T    I N F O

Leominster Museum:
01568 615186

Berrington Hall:
01568 613720

Herefordshire Record Office:
01432 260750

Herefordshire Museum Service:
01432 260000

OTHER HAT EXHIBITIONS
INCLUDED....

Leominster Museum
Display of Hats from the Herefordshire Museum Service & the local collection
01568 615186
Herefordshire Museum Service:
01432 260000

Berrington Hall
The Wade Hat & Costume Collection
01568 613720

The Lion Gallery, Broad Street, Leominster
Contemporary Hat Designers, Hat Art for H.art

Possible Future Ideas and Events:
Heavy Metal Sheep- (Bromyard) Mini Project with possible input from Sculptor Anne Campbell and Farmer/ Ex Electric Shepherd Peter Nosworthy. Workshops around a theme such as Wool Dimension.

Displays, exhibitions and workshops at other events...
e.g. Art Sheep Appearances, Edible Hats, Flat Pack hats, Felt Field Environmental Project, Baa Snaps-photos of sheep and rural landscapes, Education Packs, Knitting Poems and Stories.

Research, consolidation and Further Study.

Contact Details
To get involved in future schemes or for more information contact the WOOLGATHERERS on:
01588 640017
info@woolgatherers.net

Hatscape would like to thank the funders below and the people directly involved with the project who have given hours of their own time to make it all work.