Mary Ostler

I seem to be slowly getting into the whole Turkish ottoman thing. Since I am currently weaving a hat tie, I decided to try to make a sorguç (Ottoman Hat Plume Holder thingy).

Mistress Safiye has made an amazing sorguç made out of silver using as many period methods as she could. Its a big slice of all-right, but I want to make one cheap and fast that doesn’t look to bad.

I gathered a couple of aglets I had from a Tudor costume. Originally I got a pack of 100 from Fire Mountain Gems , but I am sure you can find individual bolo tips for a lot cheaper. I bought two beads at a local craft store, and the peacock feather has been kicking around here for a while.

I used pilers to bend over the tab ends.

I took the aglet to a local Micheals and found a bead that looked right and fit the aglet.

Hot glue into the interior.

Bead now solidly on.

I had a mangy old peacock feather. I ripped off all of the feathers and gathered them together keeping the ends close to the same point.

Take a piece of thread and make a loop, keeping a short end just off of the feather bundle

Take the long thread end and wind up the bundle from the bottom and end just short of the loop. Take the winding end and send it through the loop.

Grasp the short end of the thread and pull into the loop slides under the wound section. You want to get the loop and the winding end to be in the center of the winding section.

Cut off the thread ends and cut the feather ends.

The red thread bundle is tight enough to not require any other methods of securing it in the metal bead. The yellow bundle is a little loose, so a small dab of hot glue fixes that.

Workable aigrette