I shortened it in one direction in Inkscape and finally got something that started to look like the right shape.įinally going back to muslin I made a lined mockup and the drape is close to right.

Once I put that together as a mini-hood (all the cute mini-goods were making my wife squee) it was clear that the sculpt was way too long across the crown. Slicing that apart on seam lines gave me pattern pieces that I could flatten and scan. I covered the sculpt in cling wrap and covered that in a layer of duct tape strips. I'm not a very good sculptor, but I got a shape that I hoped was close enough. What I finally decided to do was to sculpt the hood shape out of clay.

I tried several other patterns online as well but none of them looked even this good. This was a pattern I found online for a Connor hood that was pretty close. So I started making mini-hoods by cutting patterns out of craft foam. The ACR Ezio hood has a very distinctive shape, drape, and embroidery that appears to follow seam lines. I call this chapter 'Tales from the Hood.'Īs I mentioned I had made a couple of attempts at patterning the hood using full-sized paper and muslin, none at all successful.

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