Unless you're a hardcore Batman fan, here are 16 things you never knew about Batman's cape and cowl. All links on this site are for informational purposes, but please note that some links are to affiliate sellers that pay me a small commission on purchases.

When mobsters tried to kidnap him, Thomas Wayne fought them while wearing it, making him a crime-fighter.This version of a bat lace shawl includes options for the lace edging, number of bats, and adding nupp ears and bead eyes to the bats. That’s it, I sew it up in an evening and my son has his Batman Superhero Cape to wear just before his bedtime.

I send him off to the bus and seeing him happily disguised himself as a Batman with his other superhero friends… It is worth all the efforts! After Bane broke Batman's back in the 1993 "Knightfall" crossover, Batman put a back brace in the cowl to protect his spine from any more injuries. He was sitting by a window, trying to think of what he was going to become when a bat flew in, giving him the idea.

Batman has allies and friends like Robin, his butler Alfred and Batgirl, also known as the "Bat-Family. The tutorial is using felt with interfacing as the backing but since I used satin fabric, I add another layer of satin fabric instead of the bare interfacing at the back. These patterns are not my designs but links to other designers who have generously shared their patterns. In the 1960s, Carmine Infantino was drawing Batman, and Kemp modeled the TV version off that version.