I don't know if you belong to Your Wardorbe Unlock'd or not, but I recall seeing some how-to articles on hair pieces by Lynn McMasters and others. But if you aren't a member, just google "making hair pieces" or something similar and you should find a lot of tutorials on making your own hair pieces. Teena
________________________________ From: Sharon Phillips <vintagealternat...@gmail.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Hair and Reenacting Thank you to everyone who had offered ideas for head coverings and ideas for starting points for reasearched. I haven't done any costuming in the last five years or so and I'm struggling to remember what I had learnt before then. I guess I'm also stressing a little because I'm already self-concious about drawing attention to my face at events when I'm not wearing sunglasses. My medication paralyse my eye muscles and pupils open, and I usually I hide that behind Ray-Bans. I dyed my hair to add colour to my face. The henna colour in some lights is a metallic wine-red and in other lights the colour matches a piece of burnt sienna coating I have. I don't remember seeing that shade of red as a natural hair colour but I could be wrong. I do know of a couple of local wigmakers locally who do make human hair wigs. One of them will buy hair, which is what prompted this line of thought. I do expect made to order wigs to be expensive like any craft that takes many, many hours of hand work. Cost is one of the reasons I'm after opinions and ideas before making enquiries to them. I had not thought of using the hair for switches which sounds much more feasible. How is the best way to make them into pieces that won't fall apart? Sharon Phillips (I use Dragon Dictate to compose emails. Strange word substitutions may occur.) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
