RACHEL FROST HATMAKER AND HAT HISTORIAN

Rachel Frost is a felt maker and hat historian. She makes both historical and contemporary felt hats using thetraditional hand-felting techniques that are shared by both Hungary and Britain, where she is from. She is an authorityon the history of traditional felt hat making and had conducted a global study of this specialist feltmaking craft. Muchof her knowledge has come from the late Hungarian Master Mihalko Gyula and the kalop Fakpona that she uses tomake her hats is a copy of one that he used.