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How to Make a Mummy Costume

by on Jun 11, 2008

This is so much better than using a roll of toilet paper! Using old
clothes and sheets you have laying around the house, or buying some
from the thrift store, follow Rob of Threadbanger to make your own realistic mummy costume! For more information on this project, watch the video, and for more tutorials of do it yourself fashion, subscribe to Threadheads on iTunes!

 

Materials:
White sheets (2)
White pants/jeans
White long sleeve shirt (preferably turtleneck)
Box of 100 tea bags
Some 3-5 gallon buckets
Seam ripper
Sewing Machine
Scissor

 

1.
Get that dirty, off-white, century-old mummy look by dying all of the
material in black tea. Put the tea, hot water, and materials into the
big buckets and steep for about 2-6 hours. Take them out and dry them.

A person washing items in buckets in their sink.

2. Lay out your sheet, grab your scissors, and cut 2 to 3 inch slits down the side of your sheet.

The edge of a piece of cloth with five small cuts along the edge.

3.
Tear the strips up the length of the sheet. They’ll all rip pretty
evenly and have a cool frayed edge. You now have your mummy bandages.

A person rolling white fabric with their fingers.

 

Lots of bandages stretch out on a table.

4.
Start wrapping the strips around your shirt and get to sewing the
strips around your shirt. The sloppier and less conformed you sew these
on, the better. Overlap your strips, leave some pieces longer than
others, go crazy!

A white shirt that is being sewed up by a woman.

 

Pieces of white material are stacked on top of each other.

5. Once you get to the chest area, cut the inseams of each of the sleeves.

A person is using scissors on a whitish colored material.

6. Lay them down flat, cut some pieces of material out to cover the sleeves, and sew them on.

Strips of white fabric placed together as part of a homemade mummy costume.

7.
After you finish the sleeves, sew on strips to the remaining blank
parts of the shirt, turn it inside-out, and sew your sleeves back up.

A man is running white material under a sewing machine.

8, Now, take your pants and rip open the inseam all the way to the crotch.

A pair of white pants split at the inseam.

9. Lay your pants flat, and cut strips out to cover them.

A person is on the floor cutting at white colored material.

10.
Start from the bottom and sew the strips up both legs. You can stop
when you get to the crotch because your shirt will cover that.

A white material is tattered and torn.

11. Turn your pants inside out and sew back up your legs.

12.
Now all you need to do is wrap some extra material around your face and
throw on some baby powder to get that dusty, ancient mummy affect, and
get your grunt on!

A person is putting bandages on for a mummy costume.

 

A person dressed as a mummy is pouring something on themselves.

 

A mummy is reaching out in front of them.

 

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