On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:32:51 +0000, Jane Partridge wrote: >Some years ago, I think it was in 1998 when Tamara was in the UK - a >group of us met up in Manchester and went to the ?Science Museum. In a >textile exhibition there, there was a large hanging made totally from >hair - woven I think. Quite impressive, wonder if its maker was one of >the 17? Steph, Tamara, do either of you remember this piece?
I didn't join you on that trip, despite being a lot more local than everyone who did go. I do however have some information about hair weaving. There was an exhibitor doing hair weaving at a Deutsche Kloeppelverband Congress a few years ago. She had a device that did resemble a kumihimo stand, but with a slightly smaller top that was curved instead of flat. There was an article in Die Spitze, the magazine of the Deutsche Kloeppelverband, some time later. The weaver was from Sweden; hair weaving is traditional to one particular small area or town in Sweden. If I remember rightly she was a full time professional hair weaver, the only one still doing it professionally, but it also survives in that place as a hobby. So much for the 17 claim. -- It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. - George Bernard Shaw Steph Peters, Manchester, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
