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→‎Phase 3: Installing the nose-piece: Filled out the floral-wire instructions.
(→‎If you're using straps: Added a second method, and a link to instructions for fashioning an ersatz loop turner.)
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=== Phase 3: Installing the nose-piece ===
=== Phase 3: Installing the nose-piece ===
==== Floral wire variant ====
==== Floral wire variant ====
TBD but it's likely to be something like the paper-clip method.
Floral wire is flexible but stiff wire that comes on a roll, used for building the skeleton of a floral arrangement. Here, a short length of floral wire becomes the nose-piece of the mask.
 
[[File:Sewing a floral-wire nosepiece onto a homemade mask.png|thumb|Illustration of the steps required.]]
 
The best floral wire is ~2-mm aluminum. Daiso might have it; Dollar Tree used to sell it but has replaced it with a much thinner wire, but some stores may still have old stock.
 
The way to make a nose-piece out of floral wire is to form it into an “S” shape like an unfolded paper clip, and sew it down with five bar tacks, in order from the middle of the wire to the ends.
 
If you don't know what a “bar tack” is: It's a zigzag stitch with length 0 and some amount of width. For example, shirt buttons are installed with one or two bar tacks over the holes in the button.
 
# First, find the ''exact center'' of the long edge of the mask. Measure this with a ruler, then put a pin or clip at that center point.
# Place the nose-piece about half an inch down from the top of the mask, on whichever side will be the outside. Ensure the middle of the wire is in the exact middle of the mask.
# Sew your first bar tack over the middle of the wire. You can now remove the pin or clip.
# Sew the next two bar tacks at the ends of the nose-piece (the end curves of the wire).
# Sew the last two bar tacks just shy of the ends of the wire.


Floral wire is flexible but stiff wire that comes on a roll, used for building the skeleton of a floral arrangement. Here, a short length of floral wire becomes the nose-piece of the mask.
The wearer of the mask should fold the paper clip to about 90°, then adjust it further once they put on the mask for the first time.


==== Paper-clip variant ====
==== Paper-clip variant ====
A single normal paper clip can be turned into a simple nose-piece for the top of the mask. This helps keep the top of the mask somewhat flush with the face on either side of the nose, rather than having two big gaps there.
A single normal paper clip can be turned into a simple nose-piece for the top of the mask. This helps keep the top of the mask somewhat flush with the face on either side of the nose, rather than having two big gaps there.
'''BE WARNED: Paper clips rust!''' It's critically important that any masks built using a paper-clip nose-piece get ''immediately'' dried, and are monitored for signs of rust. Coated paper clips may help (but note that the ends are still exposed), along with providing color options.


Notes:
Notes:
* Fancy paper clips in whimsical designs such as animal shapes may not be effective here. You want normal, bog-standard paper clips.
* Fancy paper clips in whimsical designs such as animal shapes may not be effective here. You want normal, bog-standard paper clips.
* Daiso's “easy to use” paper clips with the rectangular edge are even better. The installation process is no different.
* Daiso's “easy to use” paper clips with the rectangular edge are even better. The installation process is the same.
* If you want to color-match the paper clip to your fabric, you can get coated or metallized paper clips that come in a variety of colors.


If you don't know what a “bar tack” is: It's a zigzag stitch with length 0 and some amount of width. For example, shirt buttons are installed with one or two bar tacks over the holes in the button.
[[File:Sewing a paperclip nosepiece onto a homemade mask.png|thumb|Illustration of the steps required.]]
# First, find the ''exact center'' of the long edge of the mask. Measure this with a ruler, then put a pin or clip at that center point.
# Take your paper clip and spread it apart. Spread it flat, so you have a metal “S” shape.
# Take your paper clip and spread it apart. Spread it flat, so you have a metal “S” shape.
# Place the paper clip so that the middle of the paper clip is in the exact center point that you measured, and the clip is about half an inch below the edge of the mask.
# Place the paper clip so that the middle of the paper clip is in the exact center point that you measured, and the clip is about half an inch below the edge of the mask.
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