#Handmade Headdress

[crrows]

new dress <3 it feels straight out a btssb mook

[20dollarlolita]

Steal this look:

Recently, I've been feeling the need to build a few more easy and cheap lolita tutorials. In the interest of getting back to the budget lolita roots, I thought it was time to give this old post a remake:

[image caption: Family came over and I didn't want to leave my room so I made a headband with hot glue. Posted 8 years ago on Jan 3, 2015]

So, today I made a headband with hot glue. I didn't take pictures, but here's a rough run through of what I used, so you can make one too:

a 2" wide headband, which seem to run about $8, which is a lot more than I expected. Inflation's a bitch. Going to have to change the blog to 50dollarlolita to keep up.

This project did not remotely take 54 yards of cluny lace, but honestly if you're going to make handmade lolita, you should buy 54 yards of cluny lace. (I have not bought from this listing, but it looks pretty legit). If we math it out per yard, it used about 40 cents worth of lace.

I have actually bought this ribbon in multiple colors. Once again, it's a really good thing to have on hand if you make lolita. If you only buy one color, I recommend buying the color that you can use for the back lacing of most of the dresses you own. Those ribbons always seem to get lost when I do laundry, and it's also an easy way to pick a color that you'll use for accessories. $6 for 100 yards comes out to about 12 cents worth of ribbon.

I can't begin to fully articulate how valuable having trims available is for making handmade lolita. Lolita fashion is all about putting as many details into a garment as you can tastefully add, and being able to "Oh, this would be nice to have a ribbon! Oh, this would be nice with a line of lace!" can really help you push your designs to the right level of detail.

Fake flower heads and leaf ribbon. I almost didn't include the leaf ribbon in this list, but I think it really added something. I don't find a ton of need for this in lolita fashion, but it seems the smallest amount you can buy is like 20 yards. (I actually got my flowers and leaf ribbon from a cheap flower crown, but it seems you have to buy the flower crowns in packs of 10, making it more expensive than getting the components).

The flowers that I have on my headband came with a little felt tab on the back, which made them easier to glue. It might be worth it to glue a felt strip onto the plastic stem, and then glue that onto the headband.

I'm not going to count the selvedge edge of the fabric that i had lying around. You probably also have fabric scraps lying around.

Assembly strategy is a little bit up to you, but here's my thoughts:

I wrapped the headband with a scrap of fabric, and then wrapped ribbon around that in the other direction. In addition to looking nice, I think that wrapping in opposite directions is going to make the fabric wrap stronger. The front ruffle is just a 1.5-2" wide lace (I didn't measure) that was sloppily pleated. Each pleat was tacked down with hot glue.

To cover the sloppy pleats, I stuck a piece of lace over the pleated edge. This smoothed things out, and I believe that will also help reduce damage to the ruffle. The lace here is beading lace, which is intended for you to weave a ribbon through. The only ribbon I had was too wide, so I just glued the beading on top and hoped no one would notice. Spoiler alert: no one did.

What I've noticed on these kinds of accessories is that they need two things to feel complete: they need some kind of element to frame the face and make the headband visible from the front, and they need a large accessory at each ear. This isn't universally true for all substyles, but I've found that in general, it's what I shoot for.

I had an old flower crown from a party, so i just cut some roses and leaves off that crown and stuck them on the sides. I added some little ribbon bows to help sell the "this is not me cheating at beading lace" illusion.

(If you're looking for inspiration for doing this without a ruffle or a side focus, and you don't know where to start looking, I'd start with Innocent World and Moi Meme Moitie).

If you're buying ALL the components listed here, so buying all 50+ yards of lace and 100 yards of ribbon, it's going to be $37. This is a lot, but it's cheaper than a taobao headdress once you factor in shipping. If we only count the cost of what will be used in the headband, it comes out to about $13. I really cannot express enough how much having lace and ribbon on hand will improve your handmade lolita life, so if you're looking for an excuse to buy a lot of lace, here's your excuse.

And that's it! Put it on your head and you're good to go out into the world!

I think this is a great improvement over the one I made 8 years ago, although the other one did a better job at avoiding my family.

Just a quick note about building with hot glue: less is more. It's easier to hid small dots than to hide big long lines. Get a silicone thimble and really push your glued material into the glue (note: i live on the edge and just lick my finger and smooth it down, and I get burned a lot). The more texture an item has, the more likely it'll glue well. How your piece is structured will impact its longevity, so think about the strongest possible way to construct something. And if you don't like hot glue, but still want to make this, my suggestion would be to use Aleen's Super Fabric Adhesive and letting it cure between steps. My other hot glue advice is that if your design is a mess, good construction won't save you, and if your glue is a mess, good design won't save you. So this is a case where hot glue is already saving you 96 hours of cure time, so respect it and be careful.

I made this to coordinate with this dress, because the dress has some pretty modern elements like the rose trim and the sleeves, that want to push it into being a very extravagant dress, but it also don't have enough room to be very poofy (not that I'm wearing a petticoat anyway, but y'all know what I mean). I don't know how to articulate the difference between silky polyester lolita dresses and old cotton twill lolita dresses, but this is definitely better with the silky poly than the cotton twill.

[felicitassews]

This headdress is a bit wonky but hey so is the skirt it matches I guess

[lambiebrites]

fancy little mesh headdresses i’ve been making for my shop 🩵🪽 patterned these myself and they’re so fun to make!

these will be up at the end of the month if they don’t sell at my upcoming market 💕

[eden-xxx]

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[fashionbooksmilano]

Portraits in Lace Breton Women

Charles Fréger

Thames & Hudson, London 2015, 264 pages, 22.5 x 19.0 cm, ISBN 9780500517994

euro 65,00

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Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women wearing costumes and headdresses of endless variety: from high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked and embroidered confections of handmade lace, as delicate as they are distinctive.

Costumes and headdresses may indicate a wearer’s village, as well as age or status. They are worn for celebrations of a marriage, birth, or a local saint’s day, or to mark a period of mourning. Young girls, women both married and unmarried, mothers, sisters and grandmothers pose in costume for these wonderful photographic portraits.

Over 50 headdresses are introduced and described in a separate reference section, accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations. Fréger’s exceptional photographs demonstrate a wealth of pride and personal expression that make this book a unique testament to a living tradition.

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[petite-cosette]

[haplesshandmade]

chainmaille headpiece for an upcoming collab ✨

[lilac-nites]

i've been trying to teach myself sewing and it's so humbling. i do want to make dresses and bought OnS for it, but i can't even get it together to make accessories right now

[the-gloomth]

New Accessories!

I’m finally adding some of my handmade accessories to the Gloomth site! These have been available at our little retail shop but they’re going to appear on the site also for our friends who aren’t in the area. Each is entirely one of a kind! They feature reclaimed and vintage materials. You can shop them on our site here! -Tae

[elvenstardesign]

Getting back to what started this all in 2012; Circlets, circlets and more circlets! With the occasional bracelet design. This one is silver plated copper with a purple heliotropic crystal. It just sold today too so I'm incredibly happy about that! 😃✨

[bloodlacrimae]

Completed vampire halo crown 🩸🌹❤️

Handmade by me following tutorial from “vesselofblood” on YouTube.

[myownjadedpieceofmind]

Nice weather means great photo ops for my new creations... it also means the sun now hits the crack in the lens of the camera, so I have to be careful of how I angle my shots. For a 3 year old phone, I should be grateful it still works, let alone takes photos that still look decent.

First up, another versatile piece that can be worn as a crown/headdress, or necklace/choker. This one is made using some absolutely radiant garnets and recycled electrical copper wire.

And then, my first sword! It's not as perfect as I'd like it to be, and honestly think I need to reinforce some of it, but.... oh goodness, I do love how it turned out! So much measuring in this one, because even the slightest bit could have thrown off the whole design.

**by purchasing any of my work, or sharing my posts, you are helping to support a struggling disabled artist!!! I really could use the help getting my work noticed, and even sold! Life is expensive for everyone, and I know everyone has their own plight- I appreciate you taking the time to take a look or even reblog to share with your followers.

[rainbow--chameleon]

and this is the last post of my mostly created WGT outfits! again here it's mostly upcycling (using old tights for instance) and old customized stuff, I was very tired that day but I'm happy of how I could pull the outfit off!

made : top, mask

customized : goggles, headdress

[eden-xxx]

°:｡. new .｡:°

frill×grosgrain rose headdress

(cream,pink,red)

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[yolijka]

Black headdress. #headdress #tiara #crown #black #handmade https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp1_NcKMSQV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=