Projects - Craft wigs
Sep. 2nd, 2006 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I didn't make either of these, i just found them while cleaning out the wig cabinet in a drawer marked "Non-hair wigs" and thought i'd share them with y'all, since they're pretty creatively constructed!

pastel-dyed livery wig made from unspun wool

front view of above
This was one of a set of four wigs, constructed for an unknown performance. The wigs are made from dyed unspun wool fiber, stitched into these sort of cartoonish Colonial shapes on a shaped stretch-mesh base cap. I particularly like how the little tails at the back have been twisted up! These are a great simple way to create very durable "period"-looking wigs, if your designer doesn't mind the cotton-ball-ish fuzzy look--you can throw these things around, wad them up, sit on them, whatever, and they don't lose their shape or get cruddy. They're actor-proof!

Yeah, so this one is just plain weird as hell. I cannot imagine what show this might have been for, but whatever it was, i wish i'd seen it. This sets the bar pretty high for the potential weirdness-factor of the costume designs.
What's going on here is, the craftsperson has made what's essentially a buckram miter (a pope-hat), and stitched the weird swirly patterns to that base. The hair swirls are made from cotton-core yardage (like you make piping with) with acrylic white hair spiralled around the outside--i assume this was to reduce some of the weight, since a coil that thick of nothing but acrylic hair would be much heavier than this "hair piping" idea they went with. This thing is anchored at the back with a 2" wide shaped elastic band that goes under the wearer's occipital bone for added stability.

pastel-dyed livery wig made from unspun wool

front view of above
This was one of a set of four wigs, constructed for an unknown performance. The wigs are made from dyed unspun wool fiber, stitched into these sort of cartoonish Colonial shapes on a shaped stretch-mesh base cap. I particularly like how the little tails at the back have been twisted up! These are a great simple way to create very durable "period"-looking wigs, if your designer doesn't mind the cotton-ball-ish fuzzy look--you can throw these things around, wad them up, sit on them, whatever, and they don't lose their shape or get cruddy. They're actor-proof!

Yeah, so this one is just plain weird as hell. I cannot imagine what show this might have been for, but whatever it was, i wish i'd seen it. This sets the bar pretty high for the potential weirdness-factor of the costume designs.
What's going on here is, the craftsperson has made what's essentially a buckram miter (a pope-hat), and stitched the weird swirly patterns to that base. The hair swirls are made from cotton-core yardage (like you make piping with) with acrylic white hair spiralled around the outside--i assume this was to reduce some of the weight, since a coil that thick of nothing but acrylic hair would be much heavier than this "hair piping" idea they went with. This thing is anchored at the back with a 2" wide shaped elastic band that goes under the wearer's occipital bone for added stability.
Miter Wig
Date: 2006-09-03 08:29 pm (UTC)