Make a Veil for Belly Dancing

Video Transcript

"Okay, the first thing I'm going to show you today is how to make your own veil before we begin belly dancing. How to make your own veil is very simple. What you want to do is you want to go to the store, any fabric store, and you want a cut about 2 1/2 to 3 yards material. What you want to do is make sure you can get your arms at full extension and then you want to have about 8, 10 inches hanging from each arm, you want a little ever flow from each side. And that'll be a proper length. Each person has a little bit different length, depending on their length of their arms. So your veil should be able to hold behind you and still have a little bit ever drop down each side. Should be between 2 1/2 and 3 yards. And then what you can do is when you're home, when you get home, you can sew a little tiny hem around the whole entire veil to hem it off, so it doesn't fray or anything like that. So on this one, we have a little tiny hem. And then to dress up your veil a little bit more, again with the same material, this is chiffon, you can also add on a hem. And with the hem, you can add on a fabric to finish, some kind of garnish that you want on to it, you can add some beading on to it, some ribbon, anything you want to do, that, just dress it up just a little bit, maybe to match your costumes. Another kind of veil you can buy is silk. Silk almost completely different than chiffon. Silk veil is very very fragile also. You're only get a little bit of hem on this and silk is going to move much differently than chiffon. But that's another example of veil that you can get. Again, 2 1/2 to 3 yards of fabric and add anything to the trim that you like."