Circlet upgrade

The upgrade on this circlet was a real headache. Not quite literally, but almost.

The issue I had with this project, is that when I originally made the circlet, I wired the brass closed at both ends and equally spaced out the metal flowers and fittings. The design used alternating decoration, which looked really lovely.

Unfortunately, the Lady's head was even smaller than mine because I usually wear a hairpiece to bulk out my hair as she doesn't. I needed to cut about an inch out of the circlet for it to fit her well. Here lies the problem. If I had have used the same decoration all the way around and not alternating decorations, I could simply cut out a section and rejoin it with no disruption to the design. By taking an inch out of it, the decorations then had two the same butting up together, which just wouldn't do at all.

After a painful thought process, I thought that the whole thing could be dealt with in a less than perfect, but perfectly adequate way, by adding a central element which is different to both of the existing ones. The large silver rose in the middle now is flanked by gold cups with carnelian flowers and then small silver flowers which echo the rose, but in a much smaller way.

I had to remove the circlet lining to cut the circlet itself, so after the decoration was in place, a fresh one needed to be glued into place.

It really isn't what I originally intended, but it solves a problem, and it's not for a re-enactor anyway, so it ticks all the requirements and looks very pretty too.