Post by george on Jun 7, 2015 10:33:56 GMT
A few weeks ago I went to a doll's house fair to see what useful miniatures and scenery-making stuff I could pick up, they had little bags of those tiny 'holeless beads' which I remembered someone on another forum using to bead the tassels on arab sets for Trads. So I got some of those, and of course that meant I had to make an arab set, so I picked out a nice colour embroidery thread and started making a set for my new arab mare, Echo. When I went off to search for some blue thread I thought I had already, I found pieces of a yellow set I'd started years ago then put aside, lost, and forgotten. So I decided I may as well finish that too
The top set will have to be for one of my older arabs, Galileo, the bottom one is for Echo.
The gold beads, they're solid little dots and to attach them you just apply glue to the cut ends then dip them in the beads, a few shake off after the glue has dried but most stay there. They make the sets look really luxurious somehow, and don't really take that much extra time cos they're so easy to stick on.
With the addition of decorations round the collar
And finally, all finished and modelled rather nicely by Echo
I think it looks suitably luxurious and borderline over-the-top without losing the old-fashioned authentic feel too much, I don't like the 'Hollywood style' sets with all the plastic gems and spangles and ribbons which seem just as popular these days, and so I do all my research on the sites which claim to sell authentic and traditional Bedouin and Egyptian styles (for real horses, not model! ), so hopefully all their variations aren't veering too showring-flashy to satisfy modern bling tastes, heh
The decorations on the collar look better in this light, you can see them more clearly, I used Fimo for the backings and cowrie shells, and hole-less caviar beads for the, well, beads
The ones on the halter are similar styles but slightly smaller
Echo looking rather pleased with her new show outfit
I still intend to finish the long-lost yellow set, and I've started a green one as well, but I'm running out of purebred arab julips which can wear them, I seem to have gained a lot of the arab moulds in non-arab colours
The top set will have to be for one of my older arabs, Galileo, the bottom one is for Echo.
The gold beads, they're solid little dots and to attach them you just apply glue to the cut ends then dip them in the beads, a few shake off after the glue has dried but most stay there. They make the sets look really luxurious somehow, and don't really take that much extra time cos they're so easy to stick on.
With the addition of decorations round the collar
And finally, all finished and modelled rather nicely by Echo
I think it looks suitably luxurious and borderline over-the-top without losing the old-fashioned authentic feel too much, I don't like the 'Hollywood style' sets with all the plastic gems and spangles and ribbons which seem just as popular these days, and so I do all my research on the sites which claim to sell authentic and traditional Bedouin and Egyptian styles (for real horses, not model! ), so hopefully all their variations aren't veering too showring-flashy to satisfy modern bling tastes, heh
The decorations on the collar look better in this light, you can see them more clearly, I used Fimo for the backings and cowrie shells, and hole-less caviar beads for the, well, beads
The ones on the halter are similar styles but slightly smaller
Echo looking rather pleased with her new show outfit
I still intend to finish the long-lost yellow set, and I've started a green one as well, but I'm running out of purebred arab julips which can wear them, I seem to have gained a lot of the arab moulds in non-arab colours