Project: Turban Mock-up and Draping

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One of our productions this season is Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, set in a "Turkish fantasy land," according to the costume designer, so the crafts include a lot of various shapes of turbans draped in bright fabrics.

Here's a series of photos illustrating how I took a turban from mockup to final headdress:



Here is the turban drape in mockup form;
I used two colors of fabric because the final drape uses two.
That way the designer could see how the two types intertwine.


Here is the turban base--a buckram cap covered in brocade--with one twist of on fabric pinned on.


Here i wrap a second fabric around a piece of pipe insulation foam as an understructure.


When the designer saw the mockup, she decided to use three types of fabric instead of two, and some gold coin trim. Here is the final turban with the veil-drape pinned up.


Same turban, oblique view, veil drape left hanging free.
Note that all wrap/drape fabrics are cut on the bias.

Comments

[eggies-red-dres.livejournal.com]

That is just a delicous fabric combo. And very creative, the foam insulation. You just never rest on your laurells do you? :D