Fashion

made for the contortionists in serchmaa byamba’s company. designed to not impede movement for moves like headsits and pretzels. they are pinned into the hair for attachment. design is based on sketches by serchmaa, tooling design and patterning by me. detail of tooling (rivets not set) -- mongolian cloud pattern. this gold headpiece was for the soloist, and the silver ones were for the company ...

made about 3 pairs of these before i found ones i was happy to wear. first step was patterning the calf (usually using aluminum foil and tape to make a pattern, cutting along the seam, and flattening out) and then adding a t-shaped panel on top. skive, fold, and grommet the sides, and then stitch the panel to the calf. add elastic to the panel. lace with boot laces. this pattern uses 2 pieces and doesn't finish the edges with foldover or topstitch ...

used opencv to identify vertices fit to my face, used plastic wrap as a clear pattern that i transferred the dots to, marked lines connecting the dots, cut it out of vegtan with an xacto (very labor-intensive), beveled and slicked all the edges (so many!), wet-molded the mask to my face, dyed black, applied retroreflective tape dots to the vertices, added hardware. ...

this is the first leather piece i ever did, via a leather intensive at thecrucible.org that taught basic vegtan skills and then helped you execute a project of your choosing. i copied a fleet ilya mask based on just a few pictures and was surprised with how well it came out. ...