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Galadriel's Mirror Dressw/ Fellowship Greeting Cloak
This dress and cloak are made from sheer silk chiffon. Under this the bodice and skirt are lined in an opaque white silk. The beaded chiffon has a lightly crinkled look. The dress has a scooped net. The top 3 inches are are shaped oval with the sheer chiffon without the underlayer of opaque silk. There may be another shear like organza there to give the piece weight, but we do not know for sure. The oval goes all the way to the edge of the shoulder. There is a very fine trim on the top and bottom edge of the facing. The sleeves are cut on the cross as the crinkles are horizontal on the upper arm while on the dress they are perpendicular to the floor. They are made out of one piece of fabric. The top half of the sleeve is narrow but starts to widen a tad. At the elbow the bottom of the sleeve drops quickly to where the pattern is slightly larger than a half circle wide. When her arms are down, the sleeve extends to below her knees. The sleeves hem is even. The edge looks like it is just serged. It is unlined.
There are 12 meters of hand beaded cloth from India in the dress and cloak
BeltWhile the belt shows up as white in the film, it is actually cream with white and pear decoration. The base is dark cream silk and it appears to be hand beaded. It is about 2" wide and backed to give it weight. It lays flat against the body and ends in a point in front, probably covering the skirt seam line. There are two long tails that go down the front. If it matches all the other belts like this, the belt actually goes on from the back, laced in with a thin cord and small loops.
The sketch below is one half of the repeated pattern. This pattern is reversed continually down the girdle and a line of pearls waves between the patterns. A lone of pearls down each side of the girdles finishes the decoration. The ends are pointed, but the beading is not. It terminates with the seam as if the fabric was not beaded to shape. There is a definite wave to the belt ties which follows the shape of the beaded pattern.
Fellowship Greeting CloakThe cloak is three pieces of fabric, one back and two fronts. The back starts at the top of the inner edge of the fronts and is draped and tacked into place to flow into the back, which has soft drapes at the top. The sides are open. The edges are all that narrow stitch. The cloak trains back. It's is square not rounded. Galadriel's Mirror Dress/Greeting of the Fellowship cloak had one
interesting detail. The cloak seems to be held closed by the brooch. At
closer inspection though, this was done by two extra dark silver leaves in
the style of her brooch, but not actually attached to her brooch. They
attach to the cloak a few inches away from the brooch. The best shot:
Section authors: Cat and michaela
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This page was last updated 04/22/08
