Millinery class - final projects!

[labricoleuse]

The semester has ended and my millinery students presented their final projects last week. Fun stuff, including sinamay, goddesses of doom, and roadkill. (Really!)

This taffeta Christmas Carol bonnet was made by first-year Max Hilsabeck


First-year Emily Plonski used Wonderflex, silk leaves, knitted "moss" and antlers salvaged from a roadkill deer to create this huntress headdress. (The Carolina Tiger Rescue collects deer killed in highway accidents as part of their tigers' feeding plan, and one of our carpenters volunteers there; hence, the source of the antlers.)


Second-year Katie Keener made this wire-structured 1906 lingerie hat from tulle and lawn


Detail of top button ornament


Undergraduate senior Alex Ruba created this winged/feathered headdress,
which i like to think of as something worn by a goddess of doom.


Second-year Erin Abbenante made this lovely dotted sinamay hat (the underbrim is solid black straw)


I had a couple folks reconcile formerly-incomplete projects as well:


This bob-wig headdress was inspired by the buillon wigs of the 1920s. Second year Katie Keener made it from hand-dyed 12" chainette fringe stiffened with Sculpt-or-Coat on a Fosshape base.


Third-year Corinne Hodges reconciled a shoe project from last year, as well--these sweet button boots made by application of leather spat-like bootshafts onto a pair of simple pumps.

Comments

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, as always. The knitted moss looks amazing in the photo. Does it hold up visually up close?

For the sinamay hat, is that just stiffened with regular hat sizing?

[spatterdash.livejournal.com]

The moss is pretty fantastic up close, too.

For the sinamay hat, she used diluted white glue as a sizing. I think the one she went with was Tacky Glue, but i know she did some test samples with several different white glues. Sobo, Elmer's, etc. But i'm pretty sure the Tacky Glue is the one she went with.

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks!