Court Baroness Coronet

My latest project was a Court Baroness coronet for my good friend Mistress Ysabeau Tiercelin (now Baroness). As I have said before I am not much of an artist so settling on the cosmetic aspects of this project was a challenge for me. I went back and forth on design, the basic pattern, and color scheme for a while (too long given the tight deadline) and finally came up with this. The main coronet is very basic (I think maybe too basic in hindsight) and the primary feature is the tooled personal heraldry on the front.

The tooling is some of the smallest detailed tooling I have done to date (the Horse is about an inch tall) and I was very happy with it. I was almost sad I had to paint it but I did like the “pop” the color gave the finished project. The paint job was not my best. A few spots of the white primer are peeking out here and there and some of the paint is thicker than I like. It is hard to notice in person but it will forever haunt my nightmares.  It was a tight deadline and I should have spent less time debating on the design and more time painting.

I had another plan for mounting The “Pearls” on the top but I was concerned about durability with an untested method so I went with something I could trust on a mechanical level. Each Pearl is mounted to the inside of the coronet on a stainless steel pin. I turned the end of each pin over to for a hook that was then sunk into the leather. Over each pin I glued a soft leather tab to cover the pin cosmetically and to firmly anchor the pin and pearl in place.

As with most projects it was a learning experience and given the chance I would do several things differently but the project seemed well received. 

Thanks for looking!