Anne of Brittany hood.
Finally got off the couch, where I've been under covers trying to get past this head cold. Still sick, and coughing, but I was bored.
So, I need to be working on early 16th c. English hoods, which ended up being Anne of Brittany style of hood, for an upcoming event in a couple of weeks. So, I took out my pattern sets, Tudor Costuming book, my web site images, some paper and pen, and started playing with shapes.
I already have a coif, with the gold frill across it, as part of the new French hood I had written about earlier. I just need to actually make that hood sometime (but not now). So, I am using that as my base coif, since the front gives a similar shape that is close enough. The only question to my mind is how to secure it to the head, since it does not have a chin strap, nor are chin straps seen in the images I am working from.
While I do have a commercial pattern for an AoB hood (Period Patterns #52), there is something not quite right about it as is, as it curves back onto the head, and there is no info on how to show off that coloring that can be seen, and no real means to do so. I think the pattern is also a little shorter on the side of the head than what ends up here, but that's easy enough to fix later. I note that Norris' Tudor Costuming book is pretty much the same pattern, even to the measurements given, so I think that is where the pattern makers got theirs from.
My first theory is that the front of the hood portion was straight across, then flipped back to show off the colored lining. Bzzt, sorta wrong answer, as the part that is flipped back does not want to stay smooth unless I roll the whole thing back. And even then, it wants to do this pointed peak at the top of the head, not the right look at all. I will take photos of that tonight, for comparison, before I start the next mockup.
But this tells me what I must do next, which I will get into tonight after the kids are in bed. The curve to my mind is not cut back, but cut forward, have that as the pretty lining, then flip that section back to show off the pretty lining. IF this works, then most of the lining can be in linen, to grab the head better, but the front section can be faced in a small bit of colored silk. I have some gold metal silk dupioni and red silk shantung I can use for the final hoods. Anyway, test pics of those will be taken later, too.
Hopefully, the mockups will be done tonight, so I can get to working & finishing on the actual hoods this weekend. I need at least three, if not four of them.
So, I need to be working on early 16th c. English hoods, which ended up being Anne of Brittany style of hood, for an upcoming event in a couple of weeks. So, I took out my pattern sets, Tudor Costuming book, my web site images, some paper and pen, and started playing with shapes.
I already have a coif, with the gold frill across it, as part of the new French hood I had written about earlier. I just need to actually make that hood sometime (but not now). So, I am using that as my base coif, since the front gives a similar shape that is close enough. The only question to my mind is how to secure it to the head, since it does not have a chin strap, nor are chin straps seen in the images I am working from.
While I do have a commercial pattern for an AoB hood (Period Patterns #52), there is something not quite right about it as is, as it curves back onto the head, and there is no info on how to show off that coloring that can be seen, and no real means to do so. I think the pattern is also a little shorter on the side of the head than what ends up here, but that's easy enough to fix later. I note that Norris' Tudor Costuming book is pretty much the same pattern, even to the measurements given, so I think that is where the pattern makers got theirs from.
My first theory is that the front of the hood portion was straight across, then flipped back to show off the colored lining. Bzzt, sorta wrong answer, as the part that is flipped back does not want to stay smooth unless I roll the whole thing back. And even then, it wants to do this pointed peak at the top of the head, not the right look at all. I will take photos of that tonight, for comparison, before I start the next mockup.
But this tells me what I must do next, which I will get into tonight after the kids are in bed. The curve to my mind is not cut back, but cut forward, have that as the pretty lining, then flip that section back to show off the pretty lining. IF this works, then most of the lining can be in linen, to grab the head better, but the front section can be faced in a small bit of colored silk. I have some gold metal silk dupioni and red silk shantung I can use for the final hoods. Anyway, test pics of those will be taken later, too.
Hopefully, the mockups will be done tonight, so I can get to working & finishing on the actual hoods this weekend. I need at least three, if not four of them.