1862 lace headdress from Godey's Lady's Book

Sometimes, you have a very straightforward project that requires almost no troubleshooting to figure out.

For the current show in production, our costume designer provided me with a piece of research for a headdress from an 1862 edition of Godey's Lady's Book which had a set of instructions attached! All i really had to do was adjust the dimensions of the wire circlet a bit larger to accommodate a wig, and voila! Check it out:

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