How to Make an Akatsuki Cloak

The Akatsuki mobsters are popular characters from the Naruto anime, known for their long, billowing black and red cloaks. This makes the cloaks popular "cosplay" garments for fans. If you are looking to make you own Akatsuki cloak, you really need to have experience in sewing, especially making coats or cloaks. Remember that the exact measurements of the cloak will vary depending on your own measurements.

Things You'll Need

• Measuring tape
• Five yards black fabric
• Seven Yards red fabric
• Scissors
• Sewing machine
• White paint
• Fine-tipped brush

Instructions

1. Measure the length of your own body to get the measurements for the cloak itself. The front and back of the cloak will be the length from your shoulders to knees. The sleeves will go below the wrists and be very wide. You also need your neck and shoulder measurements.

2. Cut the black fabric into the panels needed for the cloak's main body. You need a single panel for the back and two left and right panels for the front, since the front will open up. The front and back sides are shaped much like very tall trapezoids, with rounded clefts cut near the top for the sleeves and collar.

3. Cut the sleeves out of the fabric by cutting more long trapezoids. These pieces need to be the arm length you measured earlier. The top needs to be as wide as the circumference of your sleeve holes. The bottom should be wide enough so the sleeve's diameter at the end is about three inches longer than your wrist.

4. Make the collar by cutting fabric to the length of the neck hole circumference and the height of your neck.

5. Create the inner lining by cutting the same patterns out of the red fabric. This is needed only if you want the cloak to be in exact detail. The red pieces should be about a half-inch larger than the black ones. Sew the red panels onto the black ones so the black fabric is on top of the red with the red fabric forming a border around the black.

6. Sew the cloak together with the sewing machine, connecting the front panels to the back panel on the sides. Sew each sleeve panel's sides together and then the sleeves to the cloak and the collar to the top.

7. Cut out cloud designs from the red fabric and add a white outline to the clouds with paint and a fine-tipped brush. Create five of these clouds and sew them onto the cloak in various positions.

Tips & Warnings

• Getting a coat pattern from a fabric store will help guide people with little sewing experience, especially in working on the collar and sleeves. It's very likely you can find a coat pattern similar to that of the Akatsuki cloak.

References

• Akatsuki Cloak: Mini Tutorial

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish