In Ausgabe 1/2005 of Die Spitze, the magazin from Dtsch. Kl�ppelverband you find an article about this subject but in german.
In the time we name Gr�nderzeit after the prussen/French war 1870/1871 pictures made from hair were very popular in Germany. I lots of Art- and Craft Museums in our country you find this works no longer on display only in the magazin because they aren't interesting for the public any longer. At that time on several places also in cloisters in Germany people made this things, pictures, brooches, bracelets and other jewellery. On old pictures with this overcroweded interieur with artifical palmtrees, very heavy and dark curtains you can see on the walls such pictures.
In the 18th and still in the 19th century after several crop failures lots of people made hair-jewellery and -pictures for their living. There was an article about 5 or 6 years ago in the OIDFA-bulletin. There you can see the Jatte the main tool, which looks a bit like a sort of pillow-case.
A swiss lacer, I know very well, learned this craft from an old swiss lady, who was probaly the last one who know about. Ursula sometimes give classes in hairwork by our association. But in the course programm for 2005 isn't one announced.
Greetings
Ilske
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