Madeira Flower Festival 2009/Hats

Custom made felt hats decorated with flowers and ribbons for the Madeira Flower Festival show.

Madeira Flower Festival 2009/Project

“….the gladiolus liked being gladiolus and thought to be superior to almost every other flowers…But the flowers that the gladiolus truly loved, the ones that they admired above and beyond were the tulips…
At Winter, the gardener, while burying on the ground the fat bulbs of the tulips would say:
– At the city stores a dozen of tulips is worth a fortune.
But in the heart of the gladiolus flower a tulip was worth much more.
…the only regret in the life of a gladiolus was not being able to be a tulip.
Because tulips are expensive, rare and very well dressed. There personality is simple, exact and clear. Their colors are rich and sumptuous. Their petals are the most well cut and fitted petals in the entire garden…”

Sophia de Mello Breyner Anderssen, The Boy Made of Bronze

Project with watercolour drawings of the dresses and hats for the girls and of the float for the Madeira Flower Festival Parade.