This has been sitting in my drafts for a while, so time to let it out in the open. I made this about a year ago.
The second in my Tudor hat series is a french hood, based on the one worn by Anne Boleyn in this portrait. Whereas with Catherine of Aragon I did my own thing when it came to decoration, this one I kept very close to it's original inspiration image.
The crescent came together very quickly. Again I used a layer of buckram, edged with millinery wire, and shaped it before moving on to fabric.
You can see from the photo that the pattern I used was one that Jane (Smith, my teacher) had originally made for Anne Boleyn at The Globe in 2010. Having googled it, here's what I assume is Jane's original:
I used more of the same black stretch velvet from Catherine for the crescent, then stitched the pearls on in clear thread. The frill is gold organza, which I had pleated for me by Ciment Pleating. I had trouble initially attaching the pleating evenly, so ended up cutting a piece of vilene to the shape of the crescent edge, gluing the pleating to it with copydex, then attaching the vilene along the edge with large stitches; sandwiching the pleats in between.
The hood is made from a 'sock' of stretch velvet, again a pain to sew with. It's basically a tube with an arc cut out at the top to make way for the head. It attached to the crescent at the front inner edge. I then sewed a velvet lining to the back of the crescent, to hide the buckram and all the stitching peeking out. Bish bosh, done!
The second in my Tudor hat series is a french hood, based on the one worn by Anne Boleyn in this portrait. Whereas with Catherine of Aragon I did my own thing when it came to decoration, this one I kept very close to it's original inspiration image.
The crescent came together very quickly. Again I used a layer of buckram, edged with millinery wire, and shaped it before moving on to fabric.
You can see from the photo that the pattern I used was one that Jane (Smith, my teacher) had originally made for Anne Boleyn at The Globe in 2010. Having googled it, here's what I assume is Jane's original:
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| The blue is lovely |
The hood is made from a 'sock' of stretch velvet, again a pain to sew with. It's basically a tube with an arc cut out at the top to make way for the head. It attached to the crescent at the front inner edge. I then sewed a velvet lining to the back of the crescent, to hide the buckram and all the stitching peeking out. Bish bosh, done!
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