{"id":1410,"date":"2024-01-09T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:53:19","slug":"wimple-research-and-patterning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Wimple research and patterning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A friend who LARPs invited me to tea to show me a head piece they wear that is similar to the above picture. I was so grateful because I had struggled to find a suitable pattern online or in books before now, but after my visit I realised that this kind of garment is actually super simple to make; it’s made up of 3 separate simple hemmed parts.
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A smaller square piece of fabric that is pinned to this headband and the back, looping to cover the front of the neck.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I worked with the fashion studio technician Carmella to create a paper pattern and then used this to replicate the wimple in both linen and calico.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Big piece – 94cm width x 49cm height<\/span><\/div>\n
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Small piece – 64cm width x 34cm height<\/span><\/div>\n
Headband piece – 40.5cm width x 3.5cm height<\/span><\/div>\n
* Plus 2cm seam allowance to be added to all 3 pieces.
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I traced the pattern on using pencil and cut them out in both fabrics.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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After hemming all 6 pieces, I marked the fabric so I know how it all fits together\/ which way up ot needs to be when on display. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Then I wrote sections of the Serenity Prayer verse across the fabric using a water soluble pen. <\/span><\/div>\n

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I then machine embroidered over this text. I backed the embroidered areas with batting to make it a more robust.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I am glad of the dummy head that I invested in because it’s helping me to get a better feel for the placement and composition of the writing. This will be more and more useful as the pieces progress.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A friend who LARPs invited me to tea to show me a head piece they wear that is similar to the above picture. I was so grateful because I had struggled to find a suitable pattern online or in books before now, but after my visit I realised that this kind of garment is actually super […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}