'It has to feel right. I can make some things sometimes and they have got to feel right. If they don't, they go back to the table and are reworked.'
I soon learn that these hair flowers are not just for clipping in your hair and forgetting about for the occasion, they are there an extension of their wearer. Almost like an extension of their character. Every dreamy and chimerical bride needs to unfold her mythical tale through her own vision, and what better way for adding the perfect touch to her ensemble, but to add colour and beauty to her tresses.
I find in my afternoon with Sam, a woman who is exploding with ideas. To describe her product would like trying to describe art, for its own sake. You cannot define art as 'a picture made with paints and brushes' no more than you can describe Sam's hair creations as 'clips to hold one's hair in place.'
Such creations of unique-ness demand words that probably have not been invented yet. Images of Sam's corsages, headbands and combs are the only real way to illustrate these accessories for festival fairies and wistful pixies.
I leave Sam at the end of an afternoon of laughter, shortbread and mugs of tea with warm memories, hospitality and welcome. She is a thinker, a mother, a businesswoman and a wife, and she balances them like beach balls on each limb. She is poised, focused and brilliant. She casts magic over her craft like a character in an Enid Blyton book. Her own brand of rare wizardry as she sits at her table by the window surrounded by every conceivable silk flower you can think of and allows her hands to create the visions in her eyes.
Think of your dream, a place inside your head where you can be free, and there you will find Rosadior, waiting to transport you to your cosmos of elegance.
She now jointly owns a vintage photo booth & booth prop hire business (www.propsinabox.co.uk) as well as Rosadior, her bespoke hair accessory business www.rosadior.co.uk
Photography:
www.janeyannaphotography.com
www.retrophotostudio.co.uk