Monday, 8 August 2016

Bird Beak

This bycocket is made of lightweight felt and not stiff so folds flat.


The word Bycocket comes from the French word bec cocquet which means birds beak or cock's beak



Monday, 1 August 2016

Cowboy Hat


This is a novelty cowboy hat picked up from a bring and buy, well used but fits the part


A basic felt hat with a pinched front, crushed crown, wide brim and leather band around the crown


Cowboy hats where not the most common hats worn in the wild west, derby or bowler hat where much more common and many hat style were worn, but as time past and the wild west became history the stetson or wide brimmed tall crown hat became the cowboy hat we think of today. 





Monday, 25 July 2016

Kufi


This hat was picked up for £2 from Tewkesbury apparently a BBC drama prop, crushed at the bottom of a box it needs a bit of attention to bring it back to shape.


A Kufi hat is a traditional men's hat worn people in Africa or those of African heritage living in the US, the hat has no religious significance can be worn by Christian, Muslim or those who follow The Force.


Kufi hats are usually made of kente cloth, mudcloth, or knitted/crocheted and pill boxed shaped






Monday, 18 July 2016

Mind Machine

This is the Cognizance Interception Contrivance.


Made as a prop from bits of a Cyberman mask, vacuum cleaner, cutlery drainers, door knobs, bird feeders and lots of other odds and ends



The device is designed to intercept telepathic communication between demons, however it gives you a bit of headache.


Professor Arlington Periwinkle-Smythe is shown here demonstrating its use


Powered lightning combustion tubes the unfortunate a lack of demons with telepathy resulted in no evidence of devices competency,


It does blow dry wet hair as a extra feature.