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Our Cloak Closet
Some folks have not make the complete costumes... or just haven't
finished them yet. Here we present the cloaks. Different
patterns give different looks.
Work here represents recreations at all skill levels.
Picture hyperlinks will open to more details about the costumes.
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Rachel, Michigan, USA
Click the pic to find out more about
her cloak and the embroidery |
Wool Cloak
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Anita - Norway Click the pic to see more
pictures
Also check out more work:
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Miniature Cloak
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Susan R. - British Columbia, Canada
Check out pics with her son modeling his
wool cloak |
Many Cloaks
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Jules Check out
pics of the family's Fellowship, Easterling and Ranger cloak |
Building notes:
I'd made a few costumes before, but never just winging it without a
pattern. I just kept messing with different ideas, and by the third or
fourth cloak I knew what I wanted to do and could whip them out really
fast. Most of them have four panels and then a hood attached to the
top. Pretty simple! The clasps were darker green felt with silver
dimensional paint for the veins of the leaves and silver ribbon for the
little swirly things around them. We just used safety pins to pin the
clasps to both sides of the cloak (which is why some of them are at odd
angles, lol).
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Amaryllis - California, USA
Pattern:
I just winged it! I was hoping I could figure out how to make something
simple like a cloak, and it more or less worked.
Fabric:
I went cheap on these because I was making them in bulk, and just made
them out of craft felt. It was a really nice color though - it was
green with some gray in it, so it almost had the magical shifting color
look.
More costumes:
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Fellowship cloak
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Firnrothiel - California, USA
Click the pic to see more cloak pictures
and find tips to first time makers. |
Fellowship Cloak, Mallorn-leaf Brooch and New Zealand
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Jen G. - Alberta, Canada
Click the pic to see more about the
cloak and see their travels in New Zealand as they find the movie sites. |
Lady Ashley's Cloak and Pin
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Ashley For the cloak I simply had
a yard long length of green material cut. I know the color is gray
(grey) but I made these for a mini-flim and the scene is the Three
Hunters on the plains of Rohan...the cloaks sort of change color
depending on the surroundings. I didn't follow a pattern...just had the
material cut and pinned it! The material is worn length-wise, long side
up, short end around your shoulders.
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This is my "elven-brooch". I made it out of
shoebox cut in a leaf shape. I wrapped foil around it for the "veins of
silver". The middle part is paper I colored and taped underneath to the
top of the leaf. You can see the safety-pin I used to pin it to the
cloak. The brooch is simply pinned to the top corners of the cloak. The
design is my own inner imagining and it took some hard thinking on how
to execute it, but it worked out fine. The shoe-box cardboard holds up
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Nulygwen's Fellowship Cloak
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Rhiannon Emrys
California, USA I made it from the Butterick 3084 pattern (very easy
to make too!). I used melton wool in dove gray from
www.fabric.com . The material is
absolutely gorgeous! It was very easy to both cut and sew together.
The advice I have for novices is pay attention to the notches they
recommend that you cut out because they are very important in making
sure that the seams lie flat and don't pucker. I'm an intermediate
sewer, but hadn't sewn anything in about 10 years. This was a great
first piece to get back into sewing, or for an inexperienced sewer
trying to learn |
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This page was last updated
11/21/09
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