December Commissions
After N.Joy.Millinery’s successes at Made in Cornwall. December became a busy month for N.Joy.
Often N.Joy.Millinery gets commissions from people who have found the perfect outfits and have thought finding a hat or fascinator to match would be the easy part. You can pick up a relatively cheap hat or fascinator in most large department stores. In the generic shades of white navy and black and perhaps a handful of this seasons colours. But to find a true match nothing beats having a piece hand made for you.
Of course having a handmade piece costs money and takes time. But here at N.Joy.Millinery. We strive to work within most budgets and within your time frame. N.Joy usually likes a month to make a head piece this guaranties material deliveries and gives N.Joy the time needed to make your headpiece as stunning as you imagined it. However over the December month N.Joy was put to the test with three commissions two of which she had three weeks for, the other just over a week! It was a challenge to say the least but N.joy loves a challenge.
(Above: Previous Commissions)
The first piece was for a bride having a small ceremony in a stunning white and silver Saks dress suit. She wanted a sophisticated piece that tied in with her outfit and was similar to a piece of N.Joy’s she had already seen.
The piece N.Joy created for her was made on a white, oval, sinamay base with large silk silver roses covered in one hundred Swarovski crystals that sparkled from every angle. Nestled between the two largest roses was a curled ostrich spine and diamond stripped feathers. The base sat at an angle on a handmade headband made of lightweight wire that is flexible to different head shapes and easy to wear. Simply sophisticated like the bride to be herself.
The second piece was for a fashionable mother of the bride, who had a glitzy vintage inspired outfit that needed the perfect fascinator to tie it all together.
N.Joy made a chocolate brown, sinamay, teardrop base. Under laid with shimmering gold sinamay that brought a subtle sparkle to the base. The top of the base had hand sculpted sinamay loops made into a bow with stripped pheasant neck feathers. Draped across the bow was stunning vintage lace with delicate hand beading using fine glass beads and delicate seed pearls. Over the top was a layer of light brown veiling that added to that vintage quality. The fascinator was then attached on a handmade headband dyed to the shade of the ladies hair colour.
The third piece was for a step mother of the bride who had a stunning emerald green lace dress that no hat or fascinator seemed to match.
The colour was a rich highly saturated royal green that even N.Joy struggled to match. N.joy ordered the closes shade of green sinamay she could find and then hand died it until she was satisfied it was the right colour. She then turned this into a teardrop base with a layer of gold sinamay underneath giving the shimmer effect like the last piece. Using sinamay loops in gold and green she sculpted a tiered bow effect at the top end of the fascinator centred with a stunning vintage broach. The vintage broach was antique gold coloured with delicate filigree and tiny gemstones in white and green. The fascinator was finished off with stripped and curled feathers in white and antique gold and sparkling metallic gold veiling. The fascinator was then attached on a handmade headband dyed to the shade of the ladies hair colour. A very festive piece for a Christmas wedding.
Each commission was as individual as each of the ladies. The final pieces tied in both the ladies out fits and accessories perfectly .For your own commission please contact N.Joy.Millinery.
(Below: Previous Commissions)
