{"id":627,"date":"2021-06-18T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/?p=627"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T09:39:00","slug":"sommarskuggan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/sommarskuggan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sommarskuggan 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sommarskuggan<\/a> is a very well known and popular character seen in several children’s TV shows that airs on SVT in Sweden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SVT needed a second Sommarskuggan costume that would tour around the country on different events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The making of this second Sommarskuggan costume was a close collaboration between me and Kajsa Tosting, head costume designer at SVT as well as the creator of the original Sommarskuggan costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My parts of the creation were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction and shaping of the entire inside structure, making of the eyes and mouth, and overall sewing assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production time: Winter 2019 \u2013 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left: The original Sommarskuggan costume ready for measuring. Right: Initial construction of the head has begun. I used nylon yarn and crinoline steel boning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Left: Temporary cotton bands were used to keep the right distance between the growing web of steel boning and to get the right shape. Right: Inner structure of the head is completed and reinforced with hand sesn facric canals and perforated steel band.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Left: Inside of the head once costume designer Kajsa Tosting added fabric “skin”. Right: Inside after installment of the tecnichs for camera viewing by the bearer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Left: Sommarskuggan’s facial features ready to be applied. I used clear epoxy resin for the eyeballs and painted them from the inside for a more eye-like effect. The mouth is made of foam, acrylics, and tulle. Right: A close encounter with the new Sommarskuggan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Left: Giving the new Sommarskuggan costume a big hug after its completion. Right: First fitting. According to the bearer, the airy construction of the new Sommarskuggan costume made it very easy and light to wear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The new Sommarskuggan is greeting big little fans at one of its first events. Picture borrowed from vartlulea.se.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sommarskuggan is a very well known and popular character seen in several children’s TV shows that airs on SVT in Sweden. SVT needed a second Sommarskuggan costume that would tour around the country on different events. The making of this second Sommarskuggan costume was a close collaboration between me and Kajsa Tosting, head costume designer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,18],"tags":[22,19,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gisela.eskapi.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}