Dorag with seamless front region

Abstract

A dorag head covering of one continuous piece of material including opposite tie straps extending sideways out from a front region for being tied around the head. Since the dorag is made of one continuous piece of material, its front region is smooth and seamless. With no seam in the front region of the dorag, no seam line impression forms in the hair after the dorag is removed. The rear region is formed of two flaps seamed together at neighboring edges to form a cap. The blank for forming the dorag is described and a method for forming the dorag from the blank is described.

1 . A dorag head covering comprised of one continuous piece of material, the head covering comprising
 a flexible layer for being applied over the head, the layer comprising   a head covering region including a front region to be worn at the front of the head and including a rear region to extend at the rear of the head;   a left and right tie strap attached at the front region of the dorag, each strap extending out from the front region of the dorag and the tie straps together being long enough to be wrapped around the head of the wearer and to be tied at the rear region of the dorag;   a seam extends in and along the flexible layer starting rearward of the front region of the head covering region and down along the rear region of the head covering region and the seam not extending forward over the front region, wherein there is no seam extending forward over the front region.   
   
   
       2 . The head covering of  claim 1 , further comprising the head covering front region and the tie straps having a front edge; and
 a welting extending along the front edge of the dorag and extending along the left and right tie straps along the front edge.   
   
   
       3 . The head covering of  claim 1 , wherein the head covering region rearward of the front region and the rear region are together defined by left and right flaps of the flexible layer, the flaps having neighboring, opposing edges which are together and the seam running along the neighboring edges between the flaps; and
 the flaps being separate from the tie straps and being joined to the tie straps at the front region of the head covering.   
   
   
       4 . A blank for forming a dorag head covering comprised of one continuous flexible piece of material, the blank comprising
 a front region,   left and right straps extending opposite left and right directions away from the front region, and the two straps and the front region together forming a continuous seamless part of the blank;   a pair of left and right flaps rearward of the front region and rearward of the tie straps, being separate from the tie straps, joined to the front region, and initially extending left and right from where they are joined to the front region, wherein the flaps are shaped and oriented to have initially rearward facing edges which face rearwardly of the blank;   the blank being sufficiently flexible and the edges and the flaps being so shaped and sized that the rearward facing edges may be brought together and joined to define a head covering, and the joinder between the flap edges not extending into the front region of the head covering.   
   
   
       5 . The blank of  claim 4 , wherein the flaps are initially joined, behind the front region of the head covering; the rearward facing edges of the flaps near to where the flaps are initially joined are curved toward the front region to define a notch shape between the rearward edges of the flaps, the shapes of notch defining edges in the notch are such that when the notch defining edges are brought together, the notch shape causes the flaps to define a cap shape which can serve as a receptacle for a head inside the head covering defined by the seamed together flaps. 
   
   
       6 . A method of forming a dorag head covering comprising
 providing a blank of a flexible layer of material having flaps on the rear part of the blank, the flaps having neighboring edges which may be brought together; and   the flaps being separated from tie straps on the blank;   the method comprising:   bringing the flaps toward each other so that their neighboring edges meet to define a rear region, and joining the edges that have met to form a head covering, without joining edges of flaps onto a front region of the head covering so that the front region is without a seam extending forward over the front region.   
   
   
       7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein the joining is done by seaming the neighboring edges together.