Thank you all for the "Hood" references. As chance would have it, my stash
for the dolls includes lots of silk velvet, and I know at least one piece is
soft enough at hand to make a very nice hood. The pearl braid I am using has
been harvested from a 'dead' wedding gown. The pearls are paste and so
rather fragile; one string is set on a cord of silver metal (now tarnished);
the other has very slightly larger pearls with silver-lined glass bead picot
running the length.
This 'personage' is about 12" tall. Queen Maude is 20" tall and designing
for her is somewhat easier to include greater detail for the scale. Made a
new wig for Elizabeth yesterday and the face was transformed. Her 'working
wig' was the curly sort one sees in most of the later portraits. The
prominent Gibson girl pout is there in the pert nose, but the simpler hair
do makes her look more pensive and vulnerable...and I think like Holbein saw
her.
Made me remember in my years of presenting vintage and antique trunk or
fashion shows how often I had to encourage the models to at least try to
achieve a hairstyle that was apropriate to the age of the ensemble they were
wearing. "Hair" does so much to really evoke the past.
Still cleaning up after my massive two day sale of last spring at a local
auction house. My archives room is overflowing with all manner of
antique/vintage fabric, fragments of all manner of fab. and trim, lace, tiny
buttons, fur (tiny ermine tails), jewelry, leather and such. I am now going
to edit some of this; most of the Twentieth century stuff, especially almost
anything after 1960, will be passed on to the local quilters or assisted
living craft rooms. And the rest? The dollies are all calling to me..."I'm
next! It's My turn! No fair. You always pick Her" and the like.
Kathleen
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