How To Make A Wig | Part Two: Adding Lace To The Foundation

A block is like a dummy head for making and dressing wigs on the head, wrap is transferred onto the malleable block and padded. The easiest way to put the padding in is to use a craft knife and just slash it in a few places. We use a variety of padding, I'm using toy stuffing when it's been padded. It needs to feel nice and firm, I'm marking in the seam lines for my foundation. So I know where each section of lace is going to go. The lace mesh is the fabric we make the foundation from and that we not the hair into it, has hexagon shaped holes, allowing us to knot on different bars to create natural movement and lift this particular foundation has four sections. We start at the nape, which we call the nape band. Each section is whipped together using a knotting hook and nylon. Whipping is a bit like crocheting. You insert the hook through the two separate sections. You loop, the nylon catch it with the hook, make a knot. Repeat and keep going until it's done. The lines that I drew on the block are my line that I will whip to before I move on to the next section. We use find a lace at the front because we're not more finally at the front and the lace sits right on the actors face. Their holes are slightly closer together and finer. So it looks more natural. A foundation takes around four and a half to five hours to make you