I don't need a tiara for anything I do, historically or costume-y or anything (yet!), but you've got me thinking on how I'd create one, what with the X and Y axes and all.
I'd fiddle and diddle around for a couple of years with totally frustrating stuff, before throwing up my hands, most likely. But interestingly, and hopefully serendipitously, I was looking up one thing (totally unrelated to tiaras) in the tailoring section for men's clothing in a [theoretically comprehensive] book of sewing, and happened across the means of handling hems which have pronounced curves with too much material in them or shallow curves having too little material for the hem. The solution to each is wedge-shaped pieces, either removed in the case of the hem with too much material to be eased in successfully, or to be inserted in the case of the hem which is too small to cover the necessary distance where it must be sewn---invisibly---to the body of the garment, e.g., an irregularly flared trumpet or bell-bottomed pant/trouser leg. Of course the pieces inserted have to be sewn on both sides to the slit made in the hem fabric (the part turned up to the inside of the garment or garment part) or the two sides where the wedge was removed (the point of the wedge must not be closer to the hemline than one inch) must be sewn together. Hemming stitches for the joinings, if I'm recalling correctly. (I'm sorry---I've been in a rush almost all day so far, and hems weren't what I needed to learn about at 4:00 this morning, so I just wasn't paying close attention.) Anyway, what's in my mind is, is there any way you could use that insertion idea to help create the X/Y arc/s? Putting jewels into where the wedges of fabric would go if you had to have more fabric in a hem to make it fit?
That is, if it wouldn't mess up the design of your tiara?
Usually entries such as this one of yours have me wishing I could try my arm at tiara-making, too, and also would have me wanting to test my theory/suggestion, but right now I'm going flat out with, well, bunches of very ordinary sewing stuff that simply has to be done....
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I don't need a tiara for anything I do, historically or costume-y or anything (yet!), but you've got me thinking on how I'd create one, what with the X and Y axes and all.
I'd fiddle and diddle around for a couple of years with totally frustrating stuff, before throwing up my hands, most likely.
But interestingly, and hopefully serendipitously, I was looking up one thing (totally unrelated to tiaras) in the tailoring section for men's clothing in a [theoretically comprehensive] book of sewing, and happened across the means of handling hems which have pronounced curves with too much material in them or shallow curves having too little material for the hem.
The solution to each is wedge-shaped pieces, either removed in the case of the hem with too much material to be eased in successfully, or to be inserted in the case of the hem which is too small to cover the necessary distance where it must be sewn---invisibly---to the body of the garment, e.g., an irregularly flared trumpet or bell-bottomed pant/trouser leg. Of course the pieces inserted have to be sewn on both sides to the slit made in the hem fabric (the part turned up to the inside of the garment or garment part) or the two sides where the wedge was removed (the point of the wedge must not be closer to the hemline than one inch) must be sewn together. Hemming stitches for the joinings, if I'm recalling correctly. (I'm sorry---I've been in a rush almost all day so far, and hems weren't what I needed to learn about at 4:00 this morning, so I just wasn't paying close attention.)
Anyway, what's in my mind is, is there any way you could use that insertion idea to help create the X/Y arc/s? Putting jewels into where the wedges of fabric would go if you had to have more fabric in a hem to make it fit?
That is, if it wouldn't mess up the design of your tiara?
Usually entries such as this one of yours have me wishing I could try my arm at tiara-making, too, and also would have me wanting to test my theory/suggestion, but right now I'm going flat out with, well, bunches of very ordinary sewing stuff that simply has to be done....