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[camwyn]

Working on learning to add boning to masks to keep the fabric off the wearer's face, since my biggest issue so far has been that when I take a deep breath the lining tries to adhere itself to my nostrils. Have been using 8-inch plastic zipties so far and cutting the fastening bit off the end, then using a jewelry file on the corners before encasing the things.

Still a little awkward at the process and have not yet attempted to combine boning with a nose fitting strip. one step at a time. right now I have a bunch of mask pieces that are left over from cutting out too many parts from various fabrics, I'll be using those as my test beds for learning boning.

might have to get longer zip ties to go all the way across the face, not really sure.

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[telophase]

The plastic boning will probably work better than the floral wire I used because it was what I had at the time. The wire gets twisted up and tangled in the wash. I'd sewn the boning channels with one open end so that the wire could be taken out before washing, but do we ever remember to? Nope. The one mask I've got like that which hasn't had the wire twisted beyond all recognition yet works well, though.

[camwyn]

They had a bundle of 100 eight-inch plastic cable ties on eBay for $6.89, free shipping. Seemed a cheap enough way to get material to learn with and probably mess up with. If it turns out it doesn't work or I don't like using them, I work in IT. There are cables. They need to be fastened into neat bundles. OH LOOK I HAVE CABLE TIES.

So I'm good either way.