This piece for a friend was inspired by the coronet from this 13th C source: https://francais-et-chretiens.home.blog/2020/03/05/portrait-saint-louis-1.
I wanted to keep the diamond and rectangle motif going while incorporating pieces of inspiration from some English illuminations. The rectangle vine motifs were taken from the De Brailes Book of Hours which are available online at the British Library - in particular the center part of the illumination on this page Add MS 49999 folio 1r.
The finished piece is veg-tan leather, cut to size, and hand dyed black. Silver plated mounting plates and glass diamond stones. Motifs are hand painted with Liquitex acrylic paint and Neat-Lack matte spray sealed. The closure on the back is a flinger loop braid some with a cashmere-wool blue thread.
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