DIY veil

A wedding is a special day in a girl’s life. The symbol of this day has always been a veil or wedding veil. Brides prefer to choose a ready-made wedding dress, but veils are increasingly made to order or on their own. You can create a fantastic veil for every taste.

Choosing a style for a veil

Depending on the style of the wedding dress, as well as the form of the wedding celebration, the style of the headdress is selected.

Decoration length graduation:

  • Above the shoulders, a veil is typical for youth parties or modest painting in the registry office. Often this is just part of the wedding hairstyle. It can only be a veil in the face.
  • To the shoulders . It happens single-layer and two-layer.
  • To the elbow. Two layers with a veil, in recent seasons it is very common.
  • To your fingertips. Suitable for dress of any style.
  • Wedding (Cathedral). It suggests a long elegant dress, richly decorated, trim elements often repeat those of the dress.

Jewelry Styles

Great selection for every taste:

  • Fantasy . Often from several panels, with corners, ribbons, frills.

  • Classical Does not cover the head. Fastens, as a rule, to the lower part of a hairdress. The veil is worn only at the beginning of the celebration.

  • The wedding . The head is completely covered. Complemented with flowers, hairpins, diadem.

  • Wedding veil cover (mantilla). Inspired by oriental or Spanish motifs. It is a thin transparent cover fixed by several invisibles.

  • Veil with a head decoration frame . Sometimes a complicated hairstyle is not implied; there is a frame made of beads, beads, flowers, which almost covers the head, and the cover is already attached to it.

Instruments

It is easy to make a wedding veil, standard tools for any kind of sewing:

  • Scissors.
  • Sewing machine.
  • Pins
  • White threads.
  • Fishing line is preferable than thread, stitches are not visible. Used to create assemblies.

Choice of fabric and finishes

The fabrics used for sewing a wedding veil are divided into two groups - hard, well-kept shape, and soft - flowing, falling . We choose the type of matter depending on the cut of your dress.

Most commonly used:

  • Fatin is a special fine mesh. It is hard and soft, smooth and decorated.
  • Guipure.
  • Veil.
  • Tulle.
  • Organza.
  • Lace.

Advice! If for a long time you can not decide on the fabric, everything is not suitable, pay attention to curtain stores. Some types of drapes made of thin white fabric may suit you well. Now a large number of translucent lace or mesh veils and tulles are produced.

How to sew a wedding veil with your own hands?

Building a veil pattern

After you have decided on the length of the veil, we choose on the basis of which figure we will build the pattern:

  • Oval.

  • A circle.

  • Square.

  • Rectangle.

  • Ring.

All the proposed models assume the presence of a veil, or your veil will turn out two-layer.

Advice! If you want the veil in front to be flat throughout: front and sides, then choosing a place for assembly, make sure that the distance from the edge of the veil to the assembly is the same on 3 sides.

Thus, in front of the veil, the veil of the veil will form a neat circle.

The progress of the pattern:

  • We determine how the veil will be attached and where. The veil attachment point will be our reference point for the measurements.
  • We measure the length of the veil.
  • Determine the length of the veil.
  • We decide what shape we will build the pattern.
  • Build a drawing of an oval, circle or rectangle.
  • Fold a sheet of paper or wallpaper four times.
  • Trim the corner.
  • Expand.
  • Trim.
  • We mark the place of assembly.

Cutting and sewing

Cutting operations can be carried out directly on the fabric, but if you use a paper pattern, you need to transfer the drawing to matter:

  • We have a pattern on the fabric.
  • We are kissing. We do not make allowances for the seam.
  • Cut out.
  • We try on, find out how much your veil should be already at the highest point.
  • We determine the place of the fold, according to the pattern.
  • We measure the height of the veil on the sides.
  • The width of the material at the fold remaining from the sidewalls is folded.
  • There are two options for working with the assembly: make even symmetrical folds, or simply assemble the assembly on the fishing line.
  • When working with folds, divide the required width by the number of folds, lay them as sequential or counter.
  • We are mocking.
  • Firmware by car.
  • If the fabric allows, then steam through the iron.

Important! The possibility of ironing is determined on a piece of fabric remaining during cutting. It is impossible to iron fabric with a dusting, all decor will remain on the iron.

  • If assembly is enough for you, then we sew the necessary distance with a seam “forward needle”. Then tighten the seam and fix the knot.

  • If your material does not crumble, then you can leave the edges as is, or you can decorate the ribbon or lace.

The problem with decorated edges is that one layer of veil will always be the wrong side up.

  • Therefore, try to sew the lace as carefully as possible strictly along the edge. In this case, the difference will be imperceptible.

  • Using lurex threads, you will make the wrong side quite decorative.

Fastening the wedding veil to the hair

As a rule, a comb is sewn to the veil, which, in turn, is decorated.

But this is not the only way, consider some more:

  • Invisibles and hairpins pin the veil under the hairstyle, or it becomes part of the hairstyle.

  • If the image involves a tiara or diadem, then the product is sewn or pinned directly to it.

  • Juliet's veil is gathered in a bow on the side.

  • Headbands and head bands are sewn with a fishing line.

  • A veil in the style of 10-20 years of the XX century is attached to the sides of the head, worn like a hat.

Mounts are very decorative.

This wedding accessory is really easy to sew at home, in one evening you will create a thing that may be most dear to you.