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Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:43 pm
by caedmon
Cimrandir sent me a hat and some tablet woven band for Yule. The colors on the band so match the hat, that I almost attached it, but ultimately decided on another project for that. But that got me thinking of decorating the hat.
I decided to try my hand at embroidery. Here's where it's at now.
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The runes are going to be some lines from Frodo's farewell song:
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate;
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:11 am
by Taylor Steiner
Beautiful!
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:52 pm
by Elleth
How fun!
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:04 pm
by Greg
Lovely!
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:29 pm
by Cimrandir
My my, that hat looks incredible now. I'm so glad you're pleased with it even with it being my first major hand-sewing project. Well done on the decoration. I wasn't sure if I should have attached the band or not but now I'm glad I didn't because the embroidery is awesome.
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2022 9:08 am
by Iodo
Very nice work so far
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:33 am
by Eofor
Fantastic! West of the Moon, East of the Sun. was what i was originally going to ask Gulli to inscribe my walking stick with. Something about the line excites my imagination.
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:05 pm
by caedmon
Some more work on it. I have all the runes done. I need to outline them in the light gray/green now.
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But this now begs the question, what to put between the lines? I was going to do some 3rd age Dunedain motifs, but that' not really very Breeland for me. My vision of Bree is 17th-18th clothes and technology, with old germanic style.
Maybe something more Vendal style but in Breeish clothing?
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Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:13 pm
by Elleth
Hrm.... this might be a goofy idea, but what about a sort of rememberance-book / lucky hat?
That is, wherever Cædmon might have wandered about the Breelands, he'd sit down and pick out a little reminder. The apple tree where he had that fine picnic, the fence he helped a friend repair, the ponies he helped catch after all those strange short folk came though town, so forth and so on? It seems in keeping with the verse, at least.
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:23 pm
by caedmon
Elleth wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:13 pm
Hrm.... this might be a goofy idea, but what about a sort of rememberance-book / lucky hat?
That is, wherever Cædmon might have wandered about the Breelands, he'd sit down and pick out a little reminder. The apple tree where he had that fine picnic, the fence he helped a friend repair, the ponies he helped catch after all those strange short folk came though town, so forth and so on? It seems in keeping with the verse, at least.
That's it. First the Haradrim warchief, now this. Elleth is telling all the stories from now on. That's a brilliant idea. Now I'm going to have to work up some backstory.
Re: Breelander hat decoration WIP
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:41 pm
by Eofor
Elleth wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:13 pm
That is, wherever Cædmon might have wandered about the Breelands, he'd sit down and pick out a little reminder.
We're on the same page! I was going to suggest something on each face representing the four towns of Breeland.
The hill with a walled gate for Bree
Staddle on the back with smaller hobbit figures smoking pipeweed
Archet on one side with men and trees representing the Chetwood
Combe on the other side with both men and hobbits perhaps tilling a field.