All four Fantasy Renaissance gowns are now done - except for the final pressing - so it's time to design and make a new headpiece. I'm thinking a narrow, beaded, trimmed "cap", with a crochet mesh caul at the back. On one of the episodes of "the Borgias", Lucrezia wore a mesh caul just over the top part of her hair with the long wavy ends cascading out the bottom. I think that's the look I'm after, and not the totally hair-enclosing caul. I experimented with several different threads and even bought some very fine metallic crochet thread at Michael's, but it's a pain to work with so I'm thinking I'll just go with the thicker metallic thread - the kind I knit "chain-mail" sleeves out of for my Celtic costumes. It means I'll have to sew the pearls on by hand, but these gowns have already taken forever so what's a few more days?
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