Portrait Query: Hennin Help

[bellevivre]

In the above portrait- does it look like you can see her hair just above the short henin, where her veil goes over?

Link is here: http://www.wga.hu/preview/m/master/ursula/4portrai.jpg

[Genievea Brookstone]

It kind of looks like the Clark Kent swirly on the forehead. 

To me, it looks like there is a thin line of hair all around.

[sealion]

It's not hair but some kind of loop. I've seen it discussed on some of the costuming boards but, since it's not my style, I didn't pay attention to the details of how or why it was done.

[Kate XXXXXX]

ALMOST all the hair shopuld be inside the Henin.  The loop is wire covered in black stuff, often thought to be velvet.  I made it as a loop in the wire I put round the sweatband/lower edge of the henin.  When I made it, we scraped the hair back into a bun inside the henin and I sewed hand worked loops all round the sweatband area (about 8 of them) and we anchored it to her hair with kirby grips.

Sorry, I don't have pix: this was way before I got in the habit of snapping everything as I made it!

[bellevivre]

should have been more specific- I mean, at the top of teh henin itself, where the veil drapes over... the henin is black, but there's something brown sticking out? maybe?

[Kate XXXXXX]

No, the hats were closed at the top, like a waste paper basket!     It's probably just the way the background is showing through the veil draped over the top.  The veils were quite stiif (silk organza is perfect for them) and pinned in place, sometimes over a wire frame.  Here are a couple more simple ones:

   

You can clearly see the pins in the second one.