Kai Lawson wrote: |
That sounds like a rough time. i certainly hope things are improving for you now, and that you're in a good (or not a bad) mental place.. |
Thanks, Kai - the things are getting better for now.
As for the helmet - I don't plan any decorations in the areas between the flutes.
Yes, indeed - there are many authentic ones with such decorations, but in mine these would be left flush. Reason - at the very beginning I consider this helmet as a "training" - as first of such type I literally learn/train how to make it. It has a lot of inevitable flaws and I don't consider it "best" of my helmets. These decorations would be enough for it, I think.
Someday I would probably make technically better one, and it would be richer in decorations. Also, I hope I would learn another decoration techniques - for example metal-in-metal inlay, which to be implied there.
The brass decorations are almost ready - nothing complicated really, just some flower-shaped, pin punch-made motives. Some additional sanding and polishing are required, after that they would be shown here.
About the flutes - there is a countless number different shapes and sizes. If you wish, just make a quick Google-search with key-word "turban helmet".
You'll see narrow, wide, long, relatively short, straight, spiral, convex, concave, flat and almost any plausible combination. There are also at least two helmets (both in MetMuseum, if I remember correctly) with X-pattern flutes
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and even several with flutes, arranged in circles running parallel to the ground
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Indeed, the fantasy of the old craftsmen could be an inexhaustible inspiration for us.