Devon Historic Churches Day Saturday 12th September

As part of Devon Historic Churches Trust's Devon Historic Churches Day, St Paul's will be open from 9am - 4pm on Sat 12th Sept.

The wonderful folk at St Paul's will be serving bacon baps from 9am - 12 noon. The wall hanging will be on display, and literature on the history of the church.

The Starcross Wall Hanging. Each 1foot square illustrates an aspect of our village life

Embroidery of the square depicting the new memorial garden for the Royal Western Counties Hospital

Starcross History has been invited to bring a display. The last time we went to St Paul's, we had a workshop to make feathers for The Swan of the Exe. This time, we'll have a workshop to make Victorian hats: mobcaps, from a circle of material and some ribbon; and top hats using card. Maybe we'll add a touch of modern with old sunglasses, camera bits, clockbits, feathers and GEARS... -  steampunk tophats? 

 

 

We'll ask for a donation towards the cost of materials. We'll get some of them from Exeter Scrapstore, which we joined as a group when we needed some white netting for the wings of our swan.

Please can anyone help on the day? We also need material and card and steampunk hat accessories; more scissors, staplers bodkins and cellotape too. Thanks.

Steampunk hat stuff we would like

• old hats
  feathers
  old sunglasses
  old glasses
  nuts
  bolts
  gears
  cogs
• smashed clocks and watches (not digital)
• anything else you can think of which would have been around in the Victorian era
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• Here's some pictures of steampunk hats.
  
  
  
  
   
  
   

What is steampunk? Wiki has the answer - it's about Victorian fantasy. Jules Verne. fantastic inventions. Victorian technology.

Steampunk hats can be quite expensive steampunk hat on ebay