Circlets

Recreation of the silk wrapped wire circlet from MoL's Dress Accessorie s. Discussion of the proper matierials to use and how to handle them, as well as a documentab le veil shape to wear with the circlet.

The idea for this project came from a picture I saw of a diadem from Khokhlach Burial Mound, which currently resides at the Hermitage Museum in the former Soviet Union. The diadem, which dates to the first century CE, has deer processing to the tree of life around the upper edge. The trees have little gold leaves that move like charms on a bracelet and, having seen it the first time, my thought was it would look great done in beads. And so I started a quest to see if there were similar head ornaments in Medieval Europe, and if so, what they looked like in comparison.

Describes the construction of a floral beaded circlet, based on medieval chaplets.

This was a prototype to test a way to hinge a circlet. The overall form of this sterling circlet is pure SCA culture, but the decoration s are Jelling Style and came out nicely.

I first became interested in making a chaplet of silk flowers after I had done one in beads.