Making an Elizabethan Coif and Forehead Cloth || My First 2023 Project! [CC]
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- čas přidán 5. 01. 2023
- IN WHICH our intrepid recreatrix
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*Music Credits*
Intro music: Teller of Tales
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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*Other music from Epidemic Sound (in order of appearance)*
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Me: I’m not interested in Tudor.
Me, every time you put on a coif and flat cap: Oh no, I need Tudor kit.
“May we move through this year gently” is the loveliest new year blessing I’ve yet heard. 💜 I’m glad to start my year in your orbit!
1. The hat makes the entire outfit; I owe TrulyHats my entire Tudor jauntiness
2. The world needs more gentleness
Firmly, completely, enthusiastically agreed.
The hat at the end reminded me of just how much I used to want to do a PhD so I could wear the ridiculously bright robes and funny hat. But I can just get my own funny hat and wear it whenever I want instead, which is much cheaper and less time-consuming than another degree.
I highly recommend saucy hats for everyone!
Glad you're feeling better!
And watching you pin your hair up was both an "ah ha!" and "duh" moment for me because it never occurred to me to pin my hair up AS I was wrapping it around to form a bun rather than after and just hope I shove enough pins in to make it work. I don't have the same kind of hair length but still it was like "oh of course!"
Wow, it always amazes me how compactly your hair coils down! I love that you've used the same fabric as other pieces in your kit, it looks more coherent as the wardrobe of one person with far fewer resources than us from which to choose.
May we all find the space and grace we need to keep moving onward through this new year 💜
I posted a picture once of my hair all spread out mermaid style, and a friend saw me at an event just after, with my hair up in a coif, and was like “how do you get all your hair in there?!”
@@OpusElenae perhaps you need a coif covered in blackwork Tardises.... Tardii? Multiple Tardis 😂
This coif, cloth and hat combo is so cool. I am so glad you are feeling better and I wish you a gentle and joyous 2023
Thank you! You too! Everyone needs gentleness I think
I’m drinking a Twinings tea bag, in a mug, made in the microwave. Because I am proud to be a barbarian. ✨
If it got you a hot comforting drink that you’re enjoying, go for it!
I am glad you are feeling better. I find bronchitis so difficult. Not being able to breathe easily just triggers my anxiety so much.
The coif and kerchief look wonderful on you, especially with the cap! It means you have something to pin it to to keep it at that jaunty angle as you dance.
Your coif and flat hat combo is dapper-perfection!
So cool how we see how this becomes the frilly 18th century cap and then the bonnet. We could draw a timeline if this shape and construction across almost a millennium.
Get well soon, bronchitis is awful!
I'm glad you're feeling better! Illness is rough. :( But the coif and forehead cloth came out well! I like that they're in the same pattern as the pocket!
Thank you for sharing this interesting video!
oh i love it, its so cute!!! i think it would look really good with a contrasting forehead cloth too, that could be very fun :P
Great idea!
I bought the fabric for mine pre-embroidered (I think yours is?) as well, from a small online shop! I'm so glad you posted this since I hadn't done the forehead cloth yet and seeing how you did it (and wore it) will help me a lot in one of *my* first small/manageable projects of this new Gregorian calendar year. 🥰 Slowing down and taking my time is definitely a framework for my creative year as well - good advice.
so cool, so pretty! i love the fabric! and i am just plain envious of your hair length! awesome all around!
There are some days where I just want my hair contained, and this seems like an ideal solution to the issues posed by scarves and bandanas (they tend to slip out of place). Thank you for showing the whole sewing process, written instructions just aren't the same!
I blame the awkwardness of this comment on the caffeine in my own tea not yet having kicked in.
When you said you cut the forehead cloth with the hypotenuse on the bias, I thought that made sense- it can stretch as it conforms to tge curve of your head. But if you bind the edge with twill tape, do you lose the bias stretch? Does the stretch help the fit? Maybe it doesn't matter.
It does lose the stretch, but it doesn’t really need to since it’s such a simple shape
It looks great!
(Still drinking hot water)
Enthusiastically agree, the world needs more gentleness
This is so cute! I want one. Immediately
Can we find the patterns somewhere? I’d like to try this with my kids.. this year we are going to spend an evening each weekend “making” together, just sitting together and chatting and making. Thank you for the inspiration ❤
Ohh!! Things makes more sense now. Both concerning the coif, but also that hairstyle and how you use the hairpins. I shall definently do that hairdo some day just for an everyday look.
My hair is for the first time below waist level, so I am always on the hunt for styles that work well with long hair. Which means a lot of historical inspiration, which is fun in my history bounding "any time period can be combined if you want"-chaos.
Mostly my hair is just in a bun with a hair fork, because I’m laaaaaazy
So cute! I love them
Thank you!
The construction of the coif was interesting. To me, I see the evolution of the St. Brirgitta's cap, especially when you took the bottom drawstring and wrapped it around your bun. Very nice. :) Joyous Calm New Year!
I love watching the evolution of fashion, it’s fascinating!
@@OpusElenae Agreed. I'm looking into the evolution of the apron dress to the sarafan.
I should make one to wear at work 😊
Dooooo ittttttt
desire to make coif intensifies.
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
So jealous! Everyone buys their fabrics from Joann's, which we don't have here in the UK. And everyone is raving about their finds, not to mention the prices. Here one has to time travel back at least 40 years to go to John Lewis on Oxford Street in London where half the first floor was taken up by haberdashery and fabrics to dream of. And of course nowadays that part of the store in now just squeezed into a tiny corner
In fairness, Joann’s selection and quality has gone down in the last five years, and the prices have gone up, so you’re paying half again as much for something half the quality. They don’t carry things like this anymore. I don’t really shop there except for notions anymore.
Happy New Year to you and to your subscribers. I was just thinking that if we (the subscribers) share your vlog on their own Facebook profiles saying how wonderful your channel is - it could bump up your subscriber numbers. I know I have friends that are interested in history who may not know of your channel. I am sure that other subscribers would too. Some 'come on everyone' lets give Opus Elanae a New Year present of a few more subcribers. I really enjoy what you present to us.
That would be so kind! Sharing to social media is super helpful. 🥰
@@OpusElenae No worries at all. I have already done so. I will keep on doing them. You are an inspiration. All the best.
Where did you find that pre-embroidered fabric? It's so beautiful, and suits the coif and kerchief perfectly. Keep up the great work! I enjoy your channel immensely!
I thiiiiiiink it was from Joann fabrics? A friend gave me a couple yards ages ago and I’ve been using bits of it ever since.
Bronchitis is awful. I hope you have exactly the number of projects you want and no more than what you need this and every year!
Did you do one on the construction of the flat cap? If so, I must have missed it.
Nope! I didn’t make it, it’s from TrulyHats.
“Today I’m drinking Aziraphale” - watch out for Crowley, though; he gets mean… ;)
Crowley is my Partner’s preferred tea, of the two, so we just buy the set lol
@@OpusElenae match made on Earth, that.
I have a coif but need to make cloth.
I have two, I think. Let me check; if I do, you can totally have one.
@@OpusElenae you are too kind. Thank you!
That fabric is gorgeous! Is that something commercially available? Or did the person who gave it to you embroider it?
It came pre-embroidered. I think it came from Joann’s originally? But like, ages ago.
@@OpusElenae Rats. Thanks!
I understand the triangle but the coif continues to confuse me. Is it a rectangle with a drawstring at one end and gathered at the other ? Also, I have this idea in my head of a coif with an extension of sorts to accommodate what might be a large amount of hair (more like an enclosed snood like thing.) is it possible to extend a coif and be proper? Your thoughts? Thank you
It’s a rectangle with two mirrored S-curves at the short sides. It’s folded in half and sewn together along 2/3 the edge that makes the point. Then the other 1/3 is gathered; this creates the pouch for the bun. The other long side is just a drawstring that’s gathered at the back of the head. You can make the coif “rectangle” wider to create more gathers at the back for more hair.
I don't understand how women can get such great results using bobby pins, I can't get any bobby pins to hold in my hair. I had found twisty pins from Goody that won't slip out, but they seem to be discontinued.
Using hairspray, dry shampoo, or a texturizing spray can help give your hair some grip. I don’t use them a ton because they don’t stay in my hair for long either honestly.