Practical physics

My brain hurts!!! I’m doing more magnet experiments and really wish my mum was still alive as this would have been just her thing as an ex physics teacher. I’m  having to work out the ‘attraction’ ‘repel’ sides of the magnets…. 
I’m also experimenting putting them into a magnetic wire mesh before I attach them to make them more secure….
I honestly can’t think that many other milliners would go down this route, but who knows?