Wedding coronet
Last summer, I accepted a freelance contract to create a wire frame headpiece, a theatrical wedding coronet that would incorporate gold leaf motifs . In this post, I will walk you through some details of the construction. I do not have photos of my client wearing it. Even so I did get a pic of it modeled by one of my hat mannequins. The coronet was patterned after one I made as a teaching sample for my millinery class, which meant I had a mock-up to fit on the client in order to discuss scale and size, and how she envisioned wearing it. She shared some images of coronets she liked and we settled on a time to meet and determine further details like scale and materials. : This image illustrates the supplies we settled on: metallic Hercules braid (the ribbon at the top), two types of gold leaf charms, and a spool of gold leaf ribbon. The Hercules braid I had already as part of my studio stock—I keep it around for projects just like this—and the client purchased the ...
