Laurie with a matching caplet .
Photo Tavan FECIT.
This headdress is also modeled about an extant headdress from the V&A I will add more pictures of the making for this headdress later.
Photo Tavan FECIT.
I want to thank Laurie Tavan for helping me display these headdress so well, with her lovely costumes and hairstyles.
This is the extant V&A Goose feather headdress. No bow, instead ribbon wrapped around the headband wire. And this time the chenille is in longer pieces and even looped and twisted. I could count 9 feathers on each side. The bottom three have the long hanging strands, the upper 6 in two layers have the twisted strands.
I used a frosted green silk taffeta with a wider stitch so the chenille I made was a bit wider 4mm instead of 3mm for the last project. When the white warp threads were removed the green matched my goose shoulder feathers.
The chenille was made in the same way as in this article. The feathers which were about 6″ long were matched and sorted into rights and lefts then wired so they could be bundled into threes. The wires where covered with a matching color of florist tape. If you look at the left side of the pink V&A headdress you can see the wires and how they bundled the groups. The chenille pieces were glued to the ends of the three bottom feathers 6 per each feather. Then some short twisted chenille pieces were glued to the next rank of feathers and then the longer twist to the top rank. The final step was the wire the bundles to a heaver piece of wire that made the headband. That was covered with florist tape and then ribbon.
Feather headdress in 360°