INSPIRATION
Tassels and construction for top part of the turban
beginning of the series. In our times we urgently need something to dream about. Similar blocks and elements already existed in one of my collections 25 years ago, and it is a regularly repeating theme. There was a red velvet turban with black trimming balls and black tassels. I wore this hat myself regularly at that time, and this is now a new edition for this article.
The base of the cap consists of etamine, a strong cardboard tube with 0.5 cm thickness, another tube about 7 cm high made of etamine reinforced with wire and filled with
Construction for top part
cotton fleece, and fringe trims which are coloured at the ends in a black gradient. I covered the etamine head with a gold fabric sewn in shape, and folds are inserted with many small needles to fix the desired swing. The folds are now fixed invisibly with hundreds of dot stitches in the recess until no crease can move anymore. The cardboard tube was gathered and also fixed, and the fringes were wrapped into a tassel and coloured. The tassel was then inserted in a gold- covered end piece.
Draping the fabric
It is nice when wearing it that the tassels move and form a frame around the face. The turban is Asian-inspired, which is something I like very much. It forces you to walk upright and exposes the face, and it also has humour. It is definitely a hat for a big appe arance and fits well into daring dark evenings with diffuse light.
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Inside of the turban
The fabric The wadded polyester/lurex fabric that Fiona Bennett used for her 1920s-style turban is from Silmatex’s collection for A/W 22/23. The fabric is available in a silver and in a gold version. Silmatex S.L. is a company dedicated to the design, manufacture and distribution of synthetic technical fabrics and imitation animal skins for the clothing, footwear and decoration industry.
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