I pulled the cap and wired the bottom edge of it, mulled it with icewool, and covered it in the printed velvet.
I wired the brim edge but not the headsize opening, because i wanted it to be as malleable as possible for folding up the brim--i thought, the stability really needs to be on the crown edge, as opposed to on the Big Mama, where i wanted the brim as rigid and stable as possible. Sometimes i have found that, when you are folding up a brim into tricorne and bicorne shapes, it's better for that headsize opening circle to be a bit "woodgy," if that makes sense. Then i mulled the underbrim, but not the overbrim (which is just covered with thin neutral lining fabric). The velvet was thick enough that i didn't want to use it on the overbrim too since hardly anyone would see it anyhow.
The vinyl was just a choice for the mockup! (Though i guess i could imagine a production concept for a show that might call for actual vinyl tricornes, but it would be something like, "I'm seeing this as Velvet Goldmine meets Pirates of the Caribbean..." Or something.)
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Date: 2009-08-01 06:49 pm (UTC)I pulled the cap and wired the bottom edge of it, mulled it with icewool, and covered it in the printed velvet.
I wired the brim edge but not the headsize opening, because i wanted it to be as malleable as possible for folding up the brim--i thought, the stability really needs to be on the crown edge, as opposed to on the Big Mama, where i wanted the brim as rigid and stable as possible. Sometimes i have found that, when you are folding up a brim into tricorne and bicorne shapes, it's better for that headsize opening circle to be a bit "woodgy," if that makes sense. Then i mulled the underbrim, but not the overbrim (which is just covered with thin neutral lining fabric). The velvet was thick enough that i didn't want to use it on the overbrim too since hardly anyone would see it anyhow.
The vinyl was just a choice for the mockup! (Though i guess i could imagine a production concept for a show that might call for actual vinyl tricornes, but it would be something like, "I'm seeing this as Velvet Goldmine meets Pirates of the Caribbean..." Or something.)