Practices: Garment Copy Patterning 

Style/Era: ~1500s

This old jester hood was found in the costume storage with a matching top piece however it was a little small for the actor's head and had a disintegrated interfacing from age. For this project to repair the hat I replaced the interfacing and added two panels to the center of alternating colors. Using the other panels, I was able to pounce wheel a pattern for the new panels with adjustments for the position of the head using a mannequin wig form.

Points in which I was challenged:

• Finding out the new size of the panels based on the pattern of the existing panels. 

  • Using a mannequin wig form helped figure out the shape the new panels needed to be to keep the shape of the hood.