Cartouche! Now all the basic pieces are made.

[kproche]

Photos of the cartouche and all the basic pieces completed

	Cartouche! All the pieces laid out together Here's roughly how it goes together. The pectoral and the cartouche (the long oval) need to be beaded. The beadwork on the cartouche will spell "TUTBUCKS"
	Closer view of the cartouche piece For the curious, it's two layers of the pale blue calcutta with batting between them. The coffee-and-cream colored "linen" was machine appliqued onto the top layer of calcutta, then the three were machine stitched together and the edges bound with the same stone blue binding used throughout the costume
	Corner detail of the cartouche
	one end of the cartouche You can see the applique stitching on the "linen" look fabric, and the edge stitching that holds the back side of the binding in place

Now I have to do the beading, and if I can find adequate images of the four sons of Horus, make paper-cut-out canopic jar lids

Comments

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Someone WILL be videotaping this, right? ;)

[jadecat9.livejournal.com]

Nice. I can't wait to see the final bit.

BTW, the four sons of Horus: http://www.akhet.co.uk/4sons.htm -- hippo, human, baboon, and falcon.

I have a whole slew of AE books you could go through with great illustrations, unfortunately, I am out of town this weekend.

[jadecat9.livejournal.com]

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=compass&_IXSR_=ng24&_IXSS_=%2524%2bwith%2ball_unique_id_index%2bis%2b%2524%3dOBJ5827%26_IXNOMATCHES_%3dgraphical%252fno_matches%252ehtml%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d1%26_IXDB_%3dcompass%26_IXSESSION_%3dYVR0aoCe9Pl%26_IXFIRST_%3d1&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSPFX_=graphical/full/lg&_IXimg=ps318842.jpg&submit-button=summary

[kproche.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's exactly the image I need! I can do mirror images with a bit of clever distortion, and make stiff-printed-paper conical sections that will slip over a standard S*****ks coffee cup lid. I'd found many front views, but no clear side view images.

I want to be carrying a tray of coffee cups with canopic-jar tops, you see.

If they're going to ask me to wear something silly, I'm going to push it to the limit, eh?

[lilacwire.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm such a nerd. My first thought was, "Wow, that craftsmanship is really nice!"

I'm sorry I won't be there to see it!

[kproche.livejournal.com]

Why thank you. That's exactly the reaction I like to hear, especially when I'm executing someone else's design.

This is for a fashion show, after all, and this is *supposed* to be a work uniform. I figured it needed to be impeccably made and fairly robust in construction.