Kokoshnik do it yourself

It would seem that such an element of women's clothing as a kokoshnik has long outlived itself. But no, there are also situations where you can not do without it, for example, some kind of performance, or the image of the Snow Maiden on New Year's Eve. Of course, you can go to the studio, and there you will sew such a kokoshnik, which you wish. And you can show your creativity and do kokoshnik do it yourself. After all, this is small, but creative, but don't we paint our life with such small creative moments?

It is enough to remember any Russian fairy tale - every beauty had a kokoshnik on her head. And for each case, a separate piece was selected with a different manner of performance. The more solemn occasion, the richer and more luxurious was the headdress. In general, the history of kokoshnik hides many secrets and mysteries and, despite many studies, no one knows the exact date of its appearance.

Kokoshnik is an old Russian dress in the form of a rounded shield or veil for the head.Married women wore a kichka and a magpie, and kokoshnik could wear everything, including unmarried ones. Doing a kokoshnik was not particularly difficult; a light fan made of thick paper was sewn and sewn on to the cap. Behind a kokoshnik the satin beautiful tape went down. In the 19th century, the kokoshnik was spread in the peasant and merchant environment, especially in the northern provinces, and in the pre-Peter the Great era, this headdress reached the boyar environment.

How to make kokoshnik Snow Maiden with his own hands?

• Kokoshnik for winter beauty should look light, brilliant and transparent, emphasizing the charm of the Snow Maiden. You can make a kokoshnik with your own hands using a frame. The simplest option is to create a head-piece made of flexible wire in the form of a half snowflake. Stretch the tinsel on the finished frame. To fasten on the head, add two ribbons matching the color and tie them at the back, thus fixing the kokoshnik on the head.

• You can make a kokoshnik a little more complicated. We take the wire in a white sheath and bend the frame for a pointed-pointed cock with a few hard jumpers. Now put it on the lace canvas and, adding 3 centimeters for each side, start cutting out the part. Put the cut-out part on the frame, bend the wire over the wire and fix it with needles. Lace should be sewn by hand on the contour. On the stiffeners, fasten it with a pair of stitches. Along the contour of the kokoshnik, carefully sew a string of beads.
• Rhinestones, bugles, sequins or beads can be sewn on the natural pattern of the lace fabric. To make the mount, sew wide ribbons that are tied at the back. This product is for strength coated with strong-glitter hair spray.

Kokoshnik: pattern

Many needlewomen often do not know how to begin work on a kokoshnik, if there is no pattern. This is understandable, because the pattern sets the foundation, and if it does not, then you do not know what to grab.

In fact kokoshnik pattern is not particularly difficult, and you yourself can vary it or create your own pattern, since it is not at all necessary to make a kokoshnik exactly as on a pattern.

We make kokoshnik from cardboard

1. First, cut out a thick frame of cardboard. For decoration, take bright pieces of brocade, satin or satin. From a gold brocade, we cut two parts onto a kokoshnik, adding 2 cm to the seams. Now using blue, green and red patches cut out the details for the patterns. To stiffen them, we glue them on dublerin. Then we take one detail for the base, on it in random order we lay out the pattern, as your fantasy allows. We fix the rags with a needle and at the edges perform a seam in a zigzag. Then remove the needles.
2. We add the main parts of the gold-colored brocade to the outside and make a straight seam on both sides, departing 1 cm from the edge - this will be the top of your kokoshnik. Around the seam we make small neat nadreziki. We turn the parts out. Inside insert frame made of cardboard. On the remaining cuts, twist the seam allowances inside and sew the parts with a manual seam. On a contour of our headdress we fix a thread with bright beads. Along the line of the pattern we sew rhinestones, sequins or other small decorations.
3. The openwork mesh on the frontal part of the kokoshnik looks very beautiful. It can be sewn or knitted from the threads of the desired color. And if you know how to weave beads, then it must be used! Make a piece of beads and attach it to the kokoshnik.

How to make kokoshnik of paper?

• To perform this kokoshnik you need 2 album sheets A3. It is easier to experiment with paper, and therefore you yourself can determine the shape of your kokoshnik. You can try to do this: from a paper sheet cut a strip 12 cm wide. Fold it in half. Round the edges of the top and cut the bottom, a little more from the middle, so in the center the width will be 2 cm less. We apply the resulting pattern to the head and see if it fits or not, if not, we adjust. According to the finished pattern, we make a cardboard base. Then we cut two exactly the same patterns of fabric, leaving an allowance of 2 cm.

• We fold the fabric in half and cut a triangular wedge out of it, taking into account the location of the fold line. The length of the wedge should be about 40 cm, where the fold line is located, and the width of the folded wedge reaches 25 cm, that is, if we unfold it, then its width will be half a meter.

• Now we combine everything together: cardboard, two cut pieces of a kokoshnik from the wrong side and ribbons that are sewn from the sides. We sew all this construction at the same time along the upper rounded part. Keep in mind that the ribbons are laid in between 1 and 2 patterns, send their long ends inward. Then the fabric is turned out, and the base is as follows.

• Then we sew on the bottom and strengthen. At the same time, it is necessary to stitch and make sure that the fabric from below does not move anywhere, since it should also be stitched. Carefully look at your work and determine the front side. Having chosen a seamy side, attach a wedge to the seamy edge and, after collecting it, carefully sew it. That's probably all, you can do a fitting. Now it remains only to decorate kokoshnik. You can do this exactly as in the previous method.

Of course, you can’t do any kokoshnik in five minutes, but for such beauty you should definitely try!