Bingy Hats are wearable pieces of art hand crafted from organic materials. They each have a unique shape with their own natural quirks and characteristics.

HOW TO MEASURE YOUR HELMET

Wrap the measuring tape around the fullest part of your head. This will be:

1. At middle of forehead

2. Just above the ears

3. At widest point at back of head.

Always chose a hat size which is slightly larger than your head.

Trained as a pastry chef, Bingy took up weaving late in life after having a stroke which left him without movement in three of his fingers. Over time he has developed a hat design which uses locally harvested calabash with a brim of woven screw pine. Bingy exhibits his work from a roadside rest-stop in Annotto Bay, hanging his piece on wooden beams and bamboo posts along the outside of the building.

Bingy’s calabash surfaces are left rough, raw and natural; highlighting their organic textures and unique characteristics. With limited tools Bingy works slowly and methodically to create each hat. To create the ventilation holes on the side of the hats - along with all the holes to weave into -Bingy uses a small razor to bore through the calabash.