“Twenty years ago I left home and was gone for three years, travelling from Africa to India and Asia. I love textiles, particularly homespun, hand decorated, heavy Rajastani fabrics and old, heavy silver and white metal jewellry. This hat from somewhere on the Thai/Laos border represents that amazing time and feeling its weight and hearing it jangle brings me back in an instant to the colour and light of those wonderful places.”

Sarah Nicholson