Today is about veil edge beading. I enjoy beading veils as I think it adds some style to the veils, weight to help them from flying up (and potentially into the face of someone behind you!) and is more historically accurate for fine dressing. In the attached picture, I'm working on a black silk organza veil which I had pre-hemmed and am now attaching the black and gold seed beads. I could have hemmed and beaded at the same time but it's my first time using the silk organza and I need some more work on that. Baroness Eithni has a wonderful magic veil stitch on her website that I encourage you to use.
To give you an idea of the time needed to bead in this fashion, it took me 55 minutes to bead 20 inches of veil. I'm using 14 black and 1 gold seed bead for every "swag". For my next black veil, I'm going to use the black seed beads again but also adding garnet style teardrop beads for a triangular effect.
I've had some criticism to say that black veils would not have been used but I disagree and have found some in use in pictures. I'll post pictures when completed plus give you an idea of the amount of beads you'll need and time. I'm not sure who will get this veil. It's quite large and on me (I know I'm short!) it goes down to my backside.
Thanks!
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