Red Scarab Chapeau

Our flying scarab design returns with spread wings rendered in bright jewel-tone threads on our red velvet "demi-fez". I have a bit of an obsession with wings and flying designs, as you can see with many of my past designs, but up until this point I had yet to tackle insect wings. While doing research on traditional Egyptian Scarab designs I just couldn’t get the beauty of actual scarab wings out of my head. I decided to take the beetle concept into a more physical direction and shift the design inspiration to the Victorian era with their infatuation with bug themes.