How to make headdress Russian costume

The Kokoshnik is a headdress that symbolizes Russian national costume. It is known from ancient times. In the old days it was made seamstress specializing in sewing hats, who knew how to make the headdress so beautiful that the eyes it was hard to take. 

The headdress was Worn on holidays, so create it using  in most cases, expensive fabrics and jewelry, natural pearls, lace, silver and gold thread, glass seed beads, live or artificial flowers. Today the headdress is also used as a headdress in the manufacture of Russian national costume. In addition, it is often used in making Christmas costumes for the snow Maiden.

How to make a headdress with your hands

The First thing to do is to prepare the materials for the manufacture of headgear. You will need heavy paper, which will be the basis. It is desirable that it retains the shape and when bent, did not break. Before you make a headdress, you also need to prepare a batting or a synthetic winterizer, a small quantity of beautiful fabric shade you need, elastic tape, lace, beads, beads, rhinestones, sequins, material for making of an application.

How to make a headdress out of cardboard

You should First take your measurements, make a drawing on plain paper, cut it and do the preliminary fitting. If the shape and dimensions of the product will be suitable - you can transfer the pattern to the prepared cardboard and cut out the basis for future headgear. Similar detail should be cut out and of batting or wadding, then stitch to attach it to a cardboard blank so that she could not move. 

Then you can start cutting out parts of a fabric, they will need two to finish the front and reverse sides. The edges should leave the allowances at least 1.5 cm On the sewing machine need to astrocity cut details at the top of the circle (except for the part that will fit your head), then remove the workpiece and to iron it, remove basting thread. 

You can Now start the build. Talking about how to make a headdress, it should be remembered that all the procedures of production to be performed very carefully. Further, in a stitched fabric pouch insert cardboard base so that the batting was on the front of the unit. The exposed lower section can tighten and hem to inside. 

Finally, you can start the most pleasant part of the conversation about how to make a headdress - the question of its decoration. For this purpose, harvested sequins, beads, rhinestones and beads. The decorative elements are sewn to the piece with small stitches, it is stitched through and through. Creating a pattern, should strictly observe its symmetry. To the hat snugly to the head and did well during movement to its lower end is attached an elastic band.

How to make a headdress for the snow Maiden

According to the above-described technology can also make the headdress for the new year's snow Maiden costume. Naturally, its color should match the color of the dress, it is best to manufacture it to take the same fabric. Decorate the headdress can be with shiny silver beads and sequins, beads, you can also make the application of silver Perceval tissue in the form of frost patterns decorate the headdress is a beautiful silver ribbon.