At 03:44 15/11/2006, you wrote:
Suzi Clarke wrote:
Gable headdresses seem to have been made on a metal wire frame. The
one I made for the Museum of London was based on a copy of the
frame in the museum. <...>
If you want to see it, go here.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Sistersuzi/Vermeer1.jpg
Very pretty! Do the falls in back extend from the two bottom sides
of the square in back as they do in the Holbein drawing? They look
like they're hanging a little straighter than that.
What did you use for stiffening besides the wire frame?
There was the wire frame at the front, then a square frame for the
back, set diagonally. The two were joined/covered with some stiff
"Vilene" and "Pelmform" (a stiff stuff you use for curtain pelmets).
This began to crumple while I was working on it, so I reinforced it
with very short lengths of steel boning from my corset stash. I think
buckram would probably have been the best answer, but I find that
very hard to handle these days.
Suzi
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