In my job, I work with quite a few young women who have become quite proficient at working wonderful designs into their hair with braiding and twisting. The young artists are mostly African American, and have learned their art from generations of expert hair braiders and stylists. But the beneficiaries of their craft are not just African American, but any of the many girls who live where I work. One of the most attractive styles I have seen is something akin to Mechlin ground, with braids interwoven on the cap of the head which then go back to the nape of the neck in the back, where they all join to make an elegant bun of braids. In order to carry off some of these elaborate styles, they use hanks of purchased hair. Some of them buy human hair, but most use inexpensive synthetics which also come in a variety of interesting colors - all of which adds to the finished effect. As you can imagine, most of the hair creations are done by one young woman for another, but I have one client who manages to braid her own hair into attractove styles - and even does hair weaving (adding purchased hair into your own) for herself.
Since I had a hard time doing the "schoolgirl" two braids on my own daughter's head when she was young, I am more than impressed with the skill required for these hairstyles! Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Original Message] > From: Barb ETx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mark, aka Tatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; lace <lace@arachne.com> > Date: 5/26/2005 5:03:55 PM > Subject: Re: [lace] BLacing with hair > > Mark.......This is about the end ;-). Talk about stretching the horizons. > What a neat idea. > > I wonder if this could be done starting at the top of the head. with the top > layer of back hair and "lacing" all the way down and under like a snood.....I > think I will have to pin down (or up) my GD this summer.;-) > BarbE > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mark, aka Tatman > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Lace list > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:47 AM > Subject: [lace] BLacing with hair > > > Hi all, > > You don't need a pillow and bobbins to do bobbinlace LOL! I used a half > stitch ground to weave the back of my niece's hair for prom this year. > Kind > of tiring on her part to lay there as we separated the strands, gelled > them, > and attached clothes pins to the ends to act as bobbins. You can see how I > did it here: > > www.tat-man.net/bobbinlace/BLhair.jpg > > And here is the finished lacing on the bottom half of her head: > > www.tat-man.net/bobbinlace/BLhair2.jpg > > Then we did curls on the top crown of her head to finish it off. The only > thing my wife didn't let me do is stick a pin in her head so I could finish > the second half of a spider LOL!!!! Someday I will get to do that and more > bobbinlacing of the hair. I can see doing two simple edges on either side > of the head where a normal french braid would be and finish it off with a > pony tail that has a lace stitch ground draped over ;) > > This is probably not a new idea, but thought I would share that. :) > > Mark, aka Tatman > www.tat-man.net > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
