Fantastical Felt Hats - Creature Comforts for the Head - NYTimes.com The "Remnants of a Dream" exhibit will also include some hats that are too large to wear and more suitable for display. Barbara Keal's felt hats look like something out of a children's story: they are large; they have ears, often with furry surfaces and felt hanging down from them. Some of her hats resemble sheep, others foxes. Still others look like creatures out of your imagination, or that of Ms. Keal, a British artist who says, "I experience myself still a child in some ways." Ms. Keal's felt hats will be on exhibit at Anthropologie's gallery at Rockefeller Plaza beginning Nov. 15. She will also lead a felt workshop. The exhibition will also feature wooden stands by her husband, Richard Keal, a woodworker. The couple met when they were studying fine art at the Wimbledon School of Art in London. When they moved to the rural region of East Sussex, Ms. Keal, then a performance artist, began making felt from the wool from nearby sheep farms, sometimes combined with alpaca fleece. She first made herself a dress and then a huge hat, she said. "I wanted to make myself some representation or signifier of that community of creatures," she said of the hats. I just experimented with every creature, from fox to unicorns. I used only local materials. Everywhere she went, people asked if she would make them a hat, and thus her business was born. The show, "Remnants of a Dream," will also include some hats that are too large to wear and more suitable for display. The workshop begins at 6 p.m., and there are limited spaces: rsvp@anthropologie.com. The exhibition will run through Jan. 10 at 50 Rockefeller Plaza; (212) 246-0386.