Chain Headdresses - Filling in the Front

Step 4

• Remove the headdress form the wig head and put it on the person's head.
• Use a piece of chain to measure across the front of the head to where the hair frames the face. Mark that point on the chain you are using for a measurement but do not divide the chain.
• Put the headdress back on the wig head.
• Fold the chain you measured in half and use it to determine where to divide the front chain (half on one side of the front center jump ring and half on the other side).
• Divide the front in these two places and put in jump rings to hold the divided chain together.

Step 5

• Remove the headdress form the wig head and put it on the person's head.
• Use a piece of chain to measure from the center large jump ring to one of the two jump rings you added in the previous step. Divide the chain at this point.
• Put the headdress back on the wig head.
• Using the piece you just divided as a reference, make another piece of chain the same length.
• Inset these pieces of chain between the jump rings inserted in the previous step and the center ring (see Figure 3), take care that the chains fan out from the jump ring without being twisted.

Step 6

Now that the front of the headdress has some structure, you have choices on how to divide the front area (see Figure 4). Some of the ways you can add chain are:

• Radiating from the top jump ring.
• Horizontally across the front.
• Radiating from the front center jump ring (to do this, replace the 5mm front center jump ring with a 10mm jump ring).
• Radiating from the two front corner jump rings (to do this, replace the 5mm front corner jump rings with 10mm jump rings.

Please note that Figure 4 is intended as a example of how to divide the front area. There are no hard and fast rules on how many pieces of chain to you use. You can use more or less then are shown. The important things to remember are:

• Measure the pieces of chain that you are adding with the headdress on the person's head.
• Add the chain into the headdress with the headdress on the wig head.
• Make the spacing between added chain identical.
• Make the corresponding chains on the right and left hand sides identical in length.
• Don't space the chain more than 1″ apart unless you plan on filling in the space with some other form of decoration.

After adding all of the front chains, adjust the chain lengths as described in Step 3.

Figure 3

Figure 4

Go to: Overview Basic Concepts Creating the Framework Filling in the Front Filling in the Sides Filling in the Back Decorating the Headress