"...visited Colonial Williamsburg...wigmaker shop...tools...fairly simple.: a
wood stand with two poles and three strands of string wound on the
poles...a comb(similar to a carder...)...would wind the long lengths of hair
over/under/over the 3 strands. Slide it over(repeat)...alternating
lengths..
When my wife and I visited Colonial Williamsburg in 2008 we saw the wig
maker shop and was fascinated. Could watch her all day. But
had to keep trekking on. The tools she uses are fairly simple.: a
wood stand with two poles and three strands of string wound on the
poles. There are various other
This may begin upon a digression, but with the interest in hairwork, and
reference to difficulty in finding people who will share technique, I have
found the same with wig work.
I have a 3 foot cut of my hair done when I turned 29, with the idea that I
would later have a wig made for a porcelain do
There is a beautiful piece of needlelace 'worked in human hair with
thicker outlines possibly in horsehair' on show in the new British
Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. You have to open a
drawer to find it (it's always worth opening drawers at the V&A!)Dated
1640-1680, it show
They make the most lovely hairwork in Dalecarlia. And it is fascinating to
see them work. It is like a small pillow with a hole in the middle and they
use a kind of bobbins. The hair is held down with weights in the middle
hole. My son has long, lovely hair and I want him to give some of it to me
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On Sunday, Dec 7, 2003, at 11:57 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (In
response to Clay):
4. Unfortunately, the dates of the OIDFA convention and the IOLI
convention
in 2000 conflicted, and very few Americans went to Lund Sweden. Those
who
did, met a hairworker in the sales room who was tak
