Ninja headbands: easy tutorial to create Naruto's headband!

• 03/08/2009 - 00:00
• Author: Inuchan
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Have you ever wanted to enter Naruto cosplayers' world? Maybe wearing a beautiful hand-made headband? So, what are you waiting for?! Here you are a simple guide on how to create a wonderful Naruto's headband with your own hands! This tutorial can be very useful to those of you who want to make on their own everything related to cosplay!

    

So, at first, come and see what we need:

• a clean tin-plated can
• razor-sharp scissors
• a copy of one of the decorations on the headbands (you will find some below)
• a large volume
• scotch-tape
• silver or golden Brands
• a little nail (well sharp and big enough to let the shank of the Brands pass through)
• black fel-tip pen
• a stripe of black/blue cloth
• glue for metals (I advise you Attack or other quick-setting universal glues)

Well, if you've got everything we need, we can go! Be careful, since it's a tricky work and you can get cut with the can!

1) Being very careful, cut the lower and the upper edges of the can as shown in the picture below.

2) Then, cut vertically the can. Open it, rendering it a thin tin-plated paper. Next, put it under something heavy (the phone list can be a valuable example).

3) Print one of the headband decorations below. (if you think they're too big, and you can use a program to modify images, you ca always reduce their dimensions ^^)

When you've printed it, cut it out, place it over the tin-plated paper and trace its borders with the fel-tip pen, being careful not to move the paper with the printed symbol (maybe, you can use some scoth-tape in order to ensure it won't move. In addiction to this, I advise you to use a thicker paper than the simple printing paper).

4) Now that you have the borders of your headband down on the can, the only thing to do is to cut it out the more precisely as possible.

5) Now, cut out of the print the symbol of the chosen village, without spoiling too much the paper.

6) Then, fix with some scotch-tape the printed picture, without the symbol, to the can and next colour with a black drawing pen (possibly indelible)the section of the symbol you have previously cut out.

At last, you should have something like this:

7) Now, take the nail and, delicately, trying not to bend the can too much, make a hole on every circle in the sides of the printing you previously attached to the headband. (this passage will surely be very difficult to follow, so, if you don't want to make a hole in your work surface, you should put yourself working over something smooth, as plasticine!! It's very useful in cases like these!)

When you've make all the six holes, take the print off the can and insert the brends into the new-made holes.

Then you get this result:

8) You're almost done! Now take your stripe of cloth and settle it so that, bending it horizontally, its width can easily contain the "foil" of the headband (with maybe 1-2 centimetres from the borders) and the lenght is almost two times the circumference of your head, in order to be able to tie it easily with a simple knot.

Once you are sure that it can comfortably stay on your forehead without annoying you (maybe try it on first), you can glue the can paper on the cloth (with an abundant dose of glue to make it stay still, otherwise it will risk to fall down).

Also, if you're good at using needle and thread, when you're done sew the borders of the cloth, so that it won't fray in the future ^_^

At the end, the result should be something like this!

So, if you try to do it, we are waiting for your photos! So, post them freely on the comments below! Have fun!

Source: instructables.com