Making a Gothic Victorian Bonnet // DIY Bustle Period Mini Bonnet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I'm making another accessory to wear with the upcoming day version of my 1880's Victorian bustle gown project. While I have made hats before, I have never made a bonnet, so I thought it may be nice to give it a try for this costume. A bonnet just doesn't sound like a very gothic vampire ready accessory for some reason, but I liked the challenge!
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Thank you for watching!
“Even your hat is cluttered with nonsense.” I feel like that summarizes my life recently. Love it
You say it like it's a bad thing......
@@Offroadkartplans not at all
I love the green color, it’s still so gothic without being cliche
Exactly. And she looks superb in jewel tones.
Thank you!
Heck yeah, love the green....Scarlet Ohara would have liked it too lol
I love “appalled by costume leaning.” I loved Disney and pop culture art and my art teachers... MANY looked down on that as not real art... people... 🤦🏻♀️ Adding a little eccentricity to life makes it a whole heck of a lot better!
I noticed that you are very hard on yourself... let me tell you, you are doing a great job! Your videos are beautiful, amazing projects! Very inspirational ♡
But I guess artists are their own biggest critics ;)
Thank you! ❤
Right on, Tiffy!
i'm now having flashbacks to wearing my grandfather's old top hat and a crushed velvet cape to play one of the three wise men in a school performance 😅
Crushed velvet capes are great!! 😂 I sewed one for the only high school dance I ever attended... and then did my best to make it a usable outfit piece for the next 3-4 years, despite its being totally not in line with fashions of the time! (The cape fascination just got the better of me...)
Such a lovely dress and bonnet, the colour of the silk always reminds me of absinthe, makes me want to make a whole set of outfits inspired by fancy drinks
I always think of that shade of green (especially if it's iridescent) as either absinthe or arsenic green. Both are very Victorian lol.
Would definitely love a lookbook based on fancy drinks!!! How fun would that be?!
Oooh do you have a channel or instagram or blog? I’d love to see those outfits if they get made!
Thank you Gwen!
The coffin pleat interior to the brim is on point for the outfit's theme.
Absolutely gorgeous. And that ribbon w/ black edging....wow. Great step-by-step hat tutorial. I'd love to see more in the future.
Thank you! ❤
Most excellent! Green is such an under appreciated color. I love it in all its wonderfulness.
Thank you Guinevere! 💚
So true, Guinivere! I literally spent 3 years trying to find a decent pair of forest green sandals 🤯 (I like coordinating or contrasting footwear with outfits) Had to make do with a thrifted pair of teal-ish ones in the end... Green just seems to be a colour that isn't "in" these days, alas?? 😢
(The previous attempt had been a pair of straw-wrapped sandals that I recoloured using green permanent marker... NOT such a success! 😂)
Upside: the black velvet makes the pretty pins gorgeous.
I have even started to change to my daytime pajamas then back to nighttime ones . Totally agree, we are all sometimes to hard on ourselves. The hat is lovely
Thanks Tracy!
"Daytime" and "nighttime" pajamas is such a lockdown thing!! 😂 I wonder how many home sewists got inspired to run themselves up glamour Hedy Lamarr-style vintage silky pajamas just to try and maintain some sense of not living constantly in flannel throughout the panini era...? 😆
So relaxing listening to your ramblings and seeing the bonnet slowly coming together! Love videos like this
Thank you Rosa!
Absolutely beautiful! That green silk! 👌👌👌 ❤️❤️❤️ X
Thank you Frankie!
Reading the comments, it seems we are all hankering to see you do more hats! "And that, my dear, is the dream!"
This looks great! I think more hat videos would be awesome! Maybe even up cycling "wounded birds" hats making them wearable again? That's something I'd love to learn how to do correctly. 💖💖
Thank you Joanna!
I think it’s delightful..Will go perfectly with your gown.I love this green you used ,it really picks up a few variations in different light including the black over lay to it..You have the perfect mix of green and black on the bonnet ..I love it 🥰
Thank you Christine!
Best hat making tutorial I've seen!!! You did a beautiful job💚
Thank you!
I would LOVE to see more hats! specifically tutorial style like this onse
Hats off to you. Lovely work. More hat design would be great
I also did set design in hs theater class. Designed some drawing ideas for costumes for greek gods and goddess with a 1950s vintage feel
Thank you Rachel!
This has been so fun to watch, and the bonnet is lovely!
Thank you Ann!
Precious in a mini-Gothic way... like baby spiders 🖤
Thank you! 🕸
I've made a few Victorian inspired bonnets, I really love making them! I made them more in Bebe style and like you, I had to develop my own pattern. I don't have decent fabric shops nearby and have to rely on ordering online. Fortunately in the UK there are a lot of millinery supply businesses online. Thank you for the pattern - I will give this a go.
BONNETS!!! I love bonnets, hats, and headgear of all sorts, and have blocked and decorated several hats in the past when I took classes from a milliner. Enjoyed this video so much. Thank you! Also, thank you for the pattern.
Thank you! I can never seem to find the exact blocks I want, surely there must be dozens of old 40's and 50's ones in a dusty warehouse out there somewhere 😅
I own a huge hat that I have to wear if I want to travel with it. It’s a duplicate of Scarlett O’Hara’s barbecue hat so carrying it in a hatbox would add an entire piece of luggage.
The bee in the bonnet ist absolutely brilliant!😂
🤦🏻♀️ I completely missed the visual pun!! Feel so ashamed...
Incredible....now I'm sad that we don't wear hats like these anymore. And I want to make something like this!
Thank you! Hats really need to make a big comeback in general
Absolutely beautiful! I think that was better than a costume Construction. Love your stuff
Thank you Camille!
What a crisp edit! Incredible work on all fronts
Thank you!
Hi Bianca!! Wonderful work on your bonnet.. Love, love your green fabric.. Deeply appreciate you taking your time to explain how you did this fabulous work of art....
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Thank you Deana!
I just found you and I'm in awe of your gifts and talents. Wonderful job!!
Thank you!
It's lovely!! I, too, am in my flannel pj's but it's 5 pm here 🤣 we don't care what ya wear when we cannot see you, just as long as we get to see you! Love the bonnet!!
Thank you!
The victorians might have poisened themselves with arsenic and other weird stuff, but jeez, they looked fabulous while doing so...
I love your stories so much, for me the sewing is educational the stories are entertaining. I don't mean any offence. And also I can't imagine anyone who can gasp with more drama than you do brava on embodying your solo role!
Thank you! Mine was a short lived acting career, but even now a decade on I still miss choir class and singing all the time 😅
What a beautiful bonnet in a beautiful color
Thank you!
Beautiful work as always!
Thank you Kelly!
Automatic captions are always funny but this one takes the price: “I would like to take more millionaire courses one day” like yeah, same
Yes pls!! More hats!!
The hot topic of bonnets in the best possible way cracked me up.
I need more hats.
between you and angela clayton, i might be making myself a cute hat at some point! looks like a lot of fun
Cat’s Costumery also released a hat making video today. Hats are the new corsets 😂
It's gothic-ly delicious~! I love this so much, I do wish to see more millinery videos. I've been making a few vintage dresses and knew something was missing.
Thank you!
Allyn's is still there... at least it was this summer when I needed some lace trim for a bridesmaid dress. I haven't had a chance to fully explore there. I will have to go and stock up on millinery supplies! I make most of my hats out of stiffened felt (add glue and let it dry) as it is for theater.
nope, it is still messy
I went on Saturday with a friend who had never been and she was both amazed and also noted how much better things could be organized of course as well 😂 I picked up a few very unique and gorgeous fabrics though!
@@TheClosetHistorian apparently there is a method to the madness in that all similar types of fabric are grouped together. You just need an associate to help you find where that might be! :D So sad that Colorado Fabrics went under. :(
Wow! I know I can do this! Thank you, thank you!
Thanks Susan! Indeed you can!!
"The hot topic version, in the best way."
I cackled
Adorable!
Gorgeous!
Thank you!
This is the tutorial of my dreams! I’ve been wanting to get into hat making.
this is delightful
Thank you Nina!
Me: I wonder which video I'll watch while I do 500 more hours of hand sewing...
ClosetHistorian:
Me: There it is.
There's nothing quite like watching costuber content when sewing or knitting/crocheting! 😄 The vibe is almost like a virtual quilting bee... Good company whilst crafting, and a sense of sewing solidarity!✊️ (Including shared sympathy for those moments when things don't go quiiiite right 😅)
The bonnet looks amazing.
🌹Absolutely Beautiful♥️🌹
Thank you!
This is so beautiful! Your work always inspires me but now I really wish I had the knowledge to make hats. I had some clients a few months ago that own an ostrich farm and they gave me a few feathers! I'm saving them to hopefully make a late Victorian or Edwardian hat some day.
Thank you! Got to love ostrich feathers, they're beautiful!
I would love to see you do more hats, both sewn hats and blocked hats
looks amazing!
Thank you Stevie!
You know what would be great recently Bernadette did a video on Victorian fake flower making on a Victorian family workshop on New York maybe you could get some flowers to embellish your bonnet and then more than design it could have a piece of history with it
Alas my budget doesn't quite stretch to custom silk flowers I'm afraid, maybe one day!
@@TheClosetHistorian look it's an idea like the cherry on top you put the cherry only when you think that the desert is truly finished
The bonnet is gorgeous!
I'm so glad you shouted out Allyn's! A friend and I went there a few years ago, and I couldn't find it again and honestly thought I had somehow hallucinated the place or it closed. Their shop is overwhelming and kind of magical, from my memory.
Thank you! Yeah Allyn's is a magical, yet usually deeply disorganized, wonder land 😅
Sweet and smart @$$y! I love the way your table was laid out. Your blue collar in the intro is sharp! Great job!
Thank you Amy!
This turned out beautiful! And I, too, am garbed in my Quarantine Attire. No shame, I'm comfy lol!
Thanks Darcie! ❤
This is truly beautiful! This whole look is going to amazing!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🕸🦇!
Thank you Denise!
Makes me think of that green bonnet in “Gone with the Wind” where Scarlet puts that bonnet on upside down to see Red Butlers reaction 😍😍😍
I’ve bought sooooo much from Mary not Martha 😻😻😻🤣🤣🤣
SWOON! Chef’s Kiss! Hat!!! Seriously could you and this channel be more completely my kind of thing? You decorated a FAN! You made a Victorian Bonnet! All Gothic and delicious. I was having a very bad migraine day, but this blew that away. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Bianca. ❤️
Thank you Thea! 💚💚💚
Ooh I love the idea of a mini bonnet! This is so cute! I kinda wish the lining ruffles were visible too, they look so pretty!
Thank you Reina!
You amaze me with your talent pool. It seems endless! I hope you are 'crap" at something, so I can feel better about myself. Lol. 😁🦘🦘
Thank you Elizabeth! I am "crap" at a great many things I can assure you 😅
I want to thank you for showing us where you should have made the seam allowances more generous. Having seen where you would have done things differently is as good as any printed pattern and probably more valuable is watching how you approach problems and solve them.
The dress is exquisite as is the lovely hat! You look like visiting royalty to our Fair country!
Please stay healthy and may you have good dreams.🎩🐱💄👡
Thank you Mary!
Yasss, we need a couture hat making video please. I recently discovered humbolt haberdashery here in California & they have all the materials we need to make our hats.
my nine year old granddaughter loves you. She just got her first sewing machine for Christmas . She puts you on and sews her straight lines. I have her making a ww2 quilt because it is nothing but straight lines and pivoting corners. Next she wants to make your bonnet.
Tell her good luck with her projects!
Oh I must remember to be family friendly when I'm rambling ha! 😅 Tell her it's great she's got started early, she'll be making bonnets in no time! ❤
Whoa that’s the most beautiful dress, the embellishments are so amazing I wonder how much that would cost to “have made” in the time? $hundreds ha ha $1000? I just like to image you wearing your ensemble dancing with gentleman in a ballroom, and you’d be the star of the evening and men swoon over you stature and beauty.
Thank you Jody! I'm afraid I don't know how much a silk taffeta gown cost at the time, it would be interesting to know though! Also, unfortunately I am a terrible dancer and therefore do not dance under any circumstances ha 😅
Fabulous! I had to wait for an uninterrupted moment to watch and it was worth the wait. Can you recommend any books on hat making? I’d love to see a mini top hat with net veil. like a Victorian horse riding look! Or is that a steampunk look?
Thank you Emma! For Millinery books I like From the Neck Up www.amazon.com/Neck-Up-Illustrated-Guide-Hatmaking/dp/0941082008/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=from+the+neck+up&qid=1613964212&sr=8-1 and Classic Millinery Techniques www.amazon.com/Classic-Millinery-Techniques-Complete-Designing/dp/157990016X/ref=pd_sbs_4?pd_rd_w=k8IYw&pf_rd_p=3ec6a47e-bf65-49f8-80f7-0d7c7c7ce2ca&pf_rd_r=HA8AYXMFKDGCT00K5Q8M&pd_rd_r=7b796478-b975-4ca4-b7a2-580f69932a61&pd_rd_wg=jJpb8&pd_rd_i=157990016X&psc=1
@@TheClosetHistorian Thanks! :-)
I have really been wanting to make some hats. I love those half hats from the 40s,50s & 60s. Its really hard to find original vintage half hats in Australia, and if you do find them, they're ridiculously expensive.
Last year I made one for my cousins wedding, to go with a black Unique Vintage fit and flare dress, embroidered with flowers which I added a lace hemline, a new/thicker handmade velvet embroidered sleeves. I had to add some darts in the bust and raise the skirt as I have a short waist.
Unfortunately I still have not been able to wear my first half hat out because while I was in the middle of making my half hat, COVID hit Australia and my cousin had to quickly elope. They hopefully get to retake their vows this Easter on the year anniversary.
We got 3 COVID 19 cases this week and my entire state has gone back into lockdown. Hopefully we won't be in lockdown again this April.
PLEASE do more HATS from all different eras. They make an outfit and are so stunning. Plus green is my favourite colour,
Take care,
Janelle (Victoria, Australia)
Thanks Janelle! I do wish we were half that strict here and then things perhaps wouldn't be as bad eek!
I loved watching your video..your narration is always fun ..makes me chuckle at times..the hat is very nice..a lot of work!!😀😀
Thank you Cheryl!
That hat is so gorgeous! I would also love to see some more hats and especially blocking with buckram. I am trying to find the most efficient way to make a hat/cover for my riding helmet so that I can level up my equestrian costuming game and that sounds interesting.
Thank you Lacy! I'll have to do a blocked buckram hat sometime soon!
Anyone else having Scarlett O'Hara visions with this? Looks like her drapery hat. Not an insult! Gorgeous.
Thank you Kristin!
Love it! I was/am really intimidated by millinary and you made it seem so much easier (though not easy) that I think I might actually be able to do it! Thank you!
Thank you! You can do it!
I love the bonnet! You made me laugh out loud a couple of times- the tearable/terrible pun was hilarious. I would love to see more hats. Honestly, this one looks so professionally-made, I’m not sure what you could have done differently with more time. Also, I can’t hear the heater noise at all. Don’t worry about it!
Thank you Susie!
Very late to this but loving it! Tip for threads when making millinery frames - running your thread through wax. It strengthens the thread and also helps keep it from tangling. But I’ve also used the Guterman thread for hand quilting that is a little stiff and that works well.
MORE 👏HATTING👏PLEASE! I have a torrid love affair with hats and the more hat videos the better. I devoured the pillbox tutorial on your blog and I'd love some nice millinery videos.
Wow what is that large spider over there on the ceiling ...points finger wildly and flapping...waits for you to look over at said Spider...and grabs gorgeous Bonnet while running for my life hahahahha >>>> MINE MINE MINE mwahhahahahahahahaaaaaaa hides in the woods whilst giggling !!!
When It comes to sewing.... You are a Girl after my ow heart.... Do what the "F**k" you have to, too make it work!!! XXX Love from Africa!!! XXX
Hi, I just started watching your video and YES!!! I would love to see you make hats. I love hats and can't browsing on Etsy without checking hatblocks. I haven't pulled any triggers yet at there are so many different shapes I like. Watching Miss Fisher Mysteries can be hazardous for your hat decisiveness. So many shapes, to many medical issues.
Thank you for the tip of starching your own material. I have been stuck in a mire trying to figure out how to make two christening bonnets for my great-nephews (also god-nephews) One I haven't met yet that who's hat should preferably work with the christening gown my grand-father was christened in in 1902. The other isn't born yet, but will be arriving any week now hasn't got anything traditional so I can run free with that one. I so is going to steal your method of figuring out how to make the shape. Unless anyone in the comments has suggestions for patterns or alternative methods of course. Those are always welcome. Okay I 'm heading back to your video now. Yours, Ann
Oh my goodness!!! Lol you have answered my biggest question about fabric. I live out side Denver area. I will be looking it up.
12:33 Even though the stitches won't be seen, I take the opportunity to practice perfection... that way my skills are honed. However, l agree, because it won't be seen, it takes the pressure off. 💖🌞🌵😷
I have finally figured out who your voice reminded of!!! It’s Red from overly sarcastic productions! It’s a history/myth/literature channel here, on TH-cam, and an absolute favourite of mine! I’ll admit that your voices aren’t a perfect match, but similar. You must have the same accent or something.
Also, I would love some more videos on millinery, It’s not something that you see often on historical costuming channels after all!
Oh I am so happy I found your channel a few weeks ago! LOVE THIS and I have to "throw my hat in the ring" and give something like this a try!!!!
Gothically delicious...that is such a great phrase... I need more gothically deliciousness in my life
I'm digging the mini-bonnet! Can we make this a trend? 😂
IKR? 😂 Why are hats snd bonnets so completely not a thing anymore...? 😢 Such a loss of interesting accessorisation!
I am about start learning how to make hats. This video is very useful. So thank you.❤😊
Watching video again for background sound and entertainment while i knit a sweater. Still love the video and hat! There is a local British themed tea parlor that will do a fancy “high tea” if you book it in advance for a group. I’m feeling the need to put together a gathering of friends for tea so i can have an excuse to make a fancy hat for the occasion. Perhaps it needs to be a seasonal occasion, because i want both a cream hat with frilly spring flowers but also a gothic hat with maybe a taxidermic critter. Hmmmmmm
Bonnets stopped being fashionable after the 1880s, hats dominated. However, sun bonnets were worn by lower and middle class women when they were working in a garden or outside, and they continued to be worn into the late 20th century
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Thank you for this tutorial. I didnt know I needed a bonnet in my life until I saw this!
Williams costume and supplies in Las Vegas may still be in business. Worth looking at.
I wonder why she doesn’t cover the 2 pieces with the fabric before she sees the pieces together She’ll probably explain
Coffin bonnet #goals. Also I totally 💯 support the flannel PJs at 4pm. 🤪
I would love some hat making videos if you are interested in making them. Also I love how that green has like a poisonous glow to it. Like elegant but deadly.
The bonnet is so cute. That blue looks stunning on you, btw.
Thank you Marie!
Lovely! Would really enjoy more hat making videos :)
Omg I'd love to see more hats ! Maybe fascinator or I doubt you have the block but the beauxbatons hat is one of my favorites
Super cute! I can't wait to see it with the whole look complete
Thank you Kathryn!
Dreaming of a nonsensically cluttered hat 🖤💚