{"id":6871,"date":"2010-05-20T07:25:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T11:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:49:43","slug":"carnival-mask-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6871","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Mask Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mask-150x127.jpg\" alt=\"Mask\" title=\"Mask\" width=\"150\" height=\"127\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Nancy Minsky, the author of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Denim-Revolution-Cast-Offs-Fashion-Must-Haves\/dp\/030735377X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1274099198&#038;sr=8-1\">Denim Revolution<\/a>, did a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.craftzine.com\/archive\/2008\/10\/halloween_fantasy_mask.html\">tutorial<\/a> for making a Venetian carnival mask out of a scrap of denim.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sold on using denim as the base material (nor of using the suggested faux-fur mask lining; I think the fur would get in your eyes), but the general method is a great jumping-off point for creating a mask of your own design.  The pattern is easy, and the tutorial gives some good tips for planning the arrangement of decorations.  I also like the ribbon-encased back band, which looks much nicer than naked elastic.<\/p>\n<p>Two or three of these done in different styles would be a pretty wall decoration.  If you aren&#8217;t planning to wear them, you could also use stiff cardboard instead of fabric and simply glue the embellishments in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Minsky, the author of Denim Revolution, did a tutorial for making a Venetian carnival mask out of a scrap of denim. I&#8217;m not entirely sold on using denim as the base material (nor of using the suggested faux-fur mask lining; I think the fur would get in your eyes), but the general method is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6896,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/6896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}