Within the hollow crown, part I: Hamlet

"For within the hollow crown 

That rounds the mortal temples of a king

Keeps death his court"

Good e'en! Your faithful Hedda here to present a new series of posts: Within the hollow crown. This series, as you might have suspected, is to deal with the various crowns featured in the play (yes, there are quite a few). (I also really wanted a reason to use that Richard II-quote.)

So, first off is Hamlet's crown, because I happened to finish it today. It's mostly constructed by wire (general note: working with wire hurts), but detailed with silver pearls in shapes of skulls and chains. I haven't even tried to cover up the wire because I wanted to give it a sort of rough look, perchance matching the skulls, but also matching the way Hamlet as a character seems sort of closed off and repellent at times, but also occasionally being quite dangerous.

Now, the skulls are there because, well, it's Hamlet, and I just couldn't resist the temptation of putting skulls on his crown. They also contributed to the sort of rough look; as did the chains. They also looked sort of cool.

I was tempted to hang lots of chains all around the crown in various lengths, but 1) I wanted to keep the crown fairly simple and more chains sort of removed that, and 2) I didn't want a shitload of chains jingling all over my head while acting.

Thus, it ended up like this: (click it for a bigger picture)

yes I do realise that maybe stripes wasn't a brilliant choice of background
but it looked cool ok

And now I think I've ranted about this crown for long enough, so adieu for now.~