Projects: More hat class projects
Mar. 21st, 2007 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseMy millinery class turned in a new round of projects, and i thought i'd post some photographs of a few of them.
First-year MFA student Amanda Phillips was interested in the bicorne shapes of the 1920s.
Here's her version in a smart wool, with grosgrain cockade.
Millinery student Grier Coleman made this wrapped-wire tiara from lighting gels, inspired by this research image of a stained-glass tiara.
First-year MFA candidate Daniel Weger took up the challenge of this Vernet illustration depicting the extreme styles of Les Incroyables ("The Incredibles," satirized here as "The Invisibles") of the 1810s.
Here's his take on the dropped-brim top hat, complete with faux-pheasant ornament!
Bravo!
ETA: The Incroyable top hat was made on a buckram base. Daniel didn't block the brim, as a couple commenters have asked. Instead, he started with a flat shape kind of like an imbalanced teardrop, and shaped it by manipulating the shape with a slash-and-spread method, adding in godets to achieve the curvature. The cover fabric is moleskin, which he secured to the brim in the deep curves with tailoring-style pick-stitching.
For some creative brim-blocking though, i've got a future post coming up in which one of my students did an amazing bit of millinery bricolage, blocking her brim on a yoga ball!
First-year MFA student Amanda Phillips was interested in the bicorne shapes of the 1920s.
Here's her version in a smart wool, with grosgrain cockade.
Millinery student Grier Coleman made this wrapped-wire tiara from lighting gels, inspired by this research image of a stained-glass tiara.
First-year MFA candidate Daniel Weger took up the challenge of this Vernet illustration depicting the extreme styles of Les Incroyables ("The Incredibles," satirized here as "The Invisibles") of the 1810s.
Here's his take on the dropped-brim top hat, complete with faux-pheasant ornament!
Bravo!
ETA: The Incroyable top hat was made on a buckram base. Daniel didn't block the brim, as a couple commenters have asked. Instead, he started with a flat shape kind of like an imbalanced teardrop, and shaped it by manipulating the shape with a slash-and-spread method, adding in godets to achieve the curvature. The cover fabric is moleskin, which he secured to the brim in the deep curves with tailoring-style pick-stitching.
For some creative brim-blocking though, i've got a future post coming up in which one of my students did an amazing bit of millinery bricolage, blocking her brim on a yoga ball!
