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Banners
LOTR creativity is extending beyond costuming ourselves, here's where to
find reproductions of some of the wonderful banners. Fine the
Originals with Elven Things and
Rohan Banners and Props.
Work here represents recreations at all skill levels.
Picture hyperlinks will open to more details about the costumes.
Arwen's Coronation Banner
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Leah - Kentucky, USA
Click the pic for banner making
instructions and patterns
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Arwen's Coronation Banner
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Barbara S. - New Mexico, USA
Click the pic for more pictures,
patterns and a detailed tutorial on making the banner |
Red Banner of Rohan
I'm just beginning to sew and making
this banner was fairly easy, but slightly time consuming. In all it
took about 7 hours. |
Emma - Connecticut, USA
First, I used a piece of red velour and hemmed up all of
the edges with a sewing machine. Next, I took a piece of gold felt that
was slightly larger than the velour and sewed it on the back so the
velour was mounted on the felt. To make the designs, I made stencils
based on an image from the movie, traced them on the felt, cut them out,
and used a glue gun to mount them on the velour. The horse stencil came
from a picture online of one of the banners. Notice that I cut the
horse in several different pieces to give more of an illusion of
movement. To create the hanging gold triangles, I cut them out and
sewed the tops onto the back of the large piece of felt. The black
decorations on them is folded black ribbon attached by a glue gun. (To
make sure you have enough ribbon, purchase at least 3 yards.) Lastly,
the top that it hangs by is a piece of gold felt folded over with four
half circles cut out. It is sewed onto the back of the large piece of
felt on the back of the velour. The finished banner should measure
about 1.5 yards long and 21 inches wide not counting the top part it
hangs by |
Theoden's Throne Room
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Anne - New York, USA This is my "take' on one
of the banners from Theoden's throne room. The designs in the "vee' of
the banner are not an exact reproduction. I was working from a very
unclear photo on the web. Sure wish I had had "The Art of the Two
Towers" before I started!
Making it was very similar to the method I used for the previous
banner i submitted <here>
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Arwen's Bedroom Banner
The banner was made from a very lightweight polyester-like
material from the discount section at JoAnn fabric.
Since the banner was made for my medieval theme wedding, I didn't try at
all to exact color match the original banner, but instead bought a deep
purple fabric.
Total cost for the banner, materials, etc. was about $20. Since
this picture was taken, we purchased a very simple curtain rod with ball
finials at a discount store and hung the banner on this rod for our
wedding. It's now up on the wall above our bed, and is the focal
point of the whole bedroom. |
Sidhe - Ohio, USA
As proof that non-sewers can still do
projects like this, there is only ONE seam
on the whole set of banners that was
actually sewn.
For the two side banners, the rod pocket on all three, and
the two sides of the middle banner, we used Stitch Witchery to
create the "seams" using a hot iron. The only sewn part
of the banners was the curved pointed edge on the bottom of the
middle banner.
Using the sketch on your site of the set of banners, and my
memory of seeing it in person, I used a white pencil to sketch
in the design and then a silver acrylic paint to actually do
all the details. The majority of the design was done with
a wet brush, but the "glow" of the stars was done with an
almost totally dry brush. The original banners have
beading on the bottom of the banners, but I decided not to risk
it, and left it unadorned.
See more pictures of the banner at our wedding at:
www.freewebs.com/scrace (inactive link) |
Elven Banner
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Sarah (aranel13) - Texas, USA
This is my version of the two trees banner, using only Telperion, the
moon tree. The basic material is a blue/black cotton with silver
glitter over it. The tree is silver lame with details in a silver
paint pen. It has a navy blue lining on the back, trimmed in a black
cord with quilt tape tabs on the top for hanging. The shape of the
banner is my own design (measuring roughly 22 inches by 14 I think)
and the tree from a drawing I made, so it's not quite accurate.
Word of warning, lame can have a mind of its own!!!
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Donna (Greyhevenelves)
- New York, USAThe design was copied from a
picture of one of the banners hanging in Theoden's throne room. By
scanning, enlarging and cutting out the picture- I was able to create a
stencil. This was used to trace the picture onto white felt. A brown
fabric marker was used to create the edging of the pieces and the
details within the horse. Fabric glue was used to attach the horse
cutout to a piece of green satin. The edges were done with gold seam
tape. Ribbon was attached to the top of the banner with which to hang
it.
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The pattern for the tree was copied from a picture of
Faramir's vest. I folded a piece of construction paper in half and
traced half of the tree. After cutting the tree out, it was used as a
pattern to trace onto a sheet of white felt. Once the felt tree was cut
out, it was glued to a background of black suede cloth with fabric glue.
Loops of black satin ribbon were attached to the top to hang the banner
with. |
See more of Donna's costumes
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Edoras Horse and Sun Banner
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Anne - NY, USA
Click the pic to find out details on how to make the banner. |
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