Wigs Tips on Making a wig with a Dutch Braid?

Do you have pictures of the style in question? I think you could do it with glued wefts, especially with mohair, but you'd definitely need to plan out how to lay the wefts to work with the style for a Dutch braid. Maybe making the braid a bit looser could help the cap from showing through too?

 

I've made a wig that incorporated braids before--mine was a braid crown. After doing that, I think making something like the hairstyle you're after would be quite doable. If I were to try it, I wouldn't use wefts--- I'd just glue the hair directly to the wigcap in small sections, like I do with every wig I make. It gives me way better control over which direction the hair lays, and it saves the extra weft-making step too. As long as you keep the braid nice and loose and make it from an underlayer, you shouldnt have any problem filling in the wigcap and keeping all the glued bits covered as you would with any other wig.

 

I made an (itty bitty) braid crown wig once. What I did was lay the wefts down so the raw ends would be covered by the braid, made the braid separately, and then glued it over the top. It takes a lot of mental planning and drawing weft directions and lines on the wigcap, but it's totally doable. You've got this!

 

I've made a dutch braid wig with wefts before. I made it with yarn wefts and padded the under side with some of the yarn to give it volume. Took a few tries to get the braid looking good, but in terms of gluing down the wefts I just made like a box of wefts on the top and folded the hair back into the braid. Hyun Soo-Min

 

Your example picture is of a French braid, not a Dutch braid. A Dutch braid is the inverse of a French braid where you add hair pieces under the braid each time instead of over, which creates a braid that looks a little more like it’s floating on the hair. If you want the look in the picture, you have to add them over the existing braid or you’ll get a different shape.

You could try laying wefts in the direction the braid would pull them (not as if the hair were down) and see if that hides things, but braiding wigs is tricky, fiddly business. You may have to braid it several times until you’re happy with the results, and use a long tailed comb or a hair stick to pull pieces over exposed wefts. It’s good that you want kind of a chunky style, because it’s tricky to get doll braids in scale when the fibers are so thick proportionally to the doll. It’s doable, but definitely a challenge.

 

that came out very nice!