DIY Conical Hats for Fashionable Princesses
Learn to craft colorful, fancy cone shaped hats for each of your fashion dolls. Trim them with silks, ribbons, embroidery etc... The conical hats are called hennin; read more about them at Wikipedia . Above, Hans Memling's painting of a young woman with a black velvet lappets and a conical shaped hat. The headdress in the shape of a cone or "steeple", or truncated cone were worn in the late Middle Ages by European princesses and women of the nobility. Various writers on costume history use hennin to cover a variety of different styles. Almost all agree that the steeple-cone style was the original hennin. You can make these theatrical looking princess hats for all of your Barbie dolls! Supply List: cardboard masking tape hot glue gun and hot glue needle and matching threads silk scraps, scarfs, transparent fabric scraps ribbons to match cotton balls tacky craft glue one large paper clip decorative thin silk ribbons (8 inches per hat) ...