Casting a hat block in 2-part rigid foam

Second-year graduate student Candy McClernan already took my graduate millinery class some years ago, before applying to the program. Now that she's an enrolled graduate student, rather than just coast through a semester having already earned that credit, she decided to do a devised independent study: "Millinery II," if you will.

She has been working on several exciting projects as part of her research, and recently completed one of the topics on her list: replicating a vintage hat block by casting it in Foam-It 5, a two-part rigid foam.

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