Re: [h-cost] MODERN HAIR RECEPTICLE

2010-05-04 Thread ladybeanofbunny1
>Now I'm curious - how *do* you change clothes in a moving carriage or sleigh? < Wouldn't it be similar to changing in a moving car? It is rather surprising to hear anyone was changing anything in a moving carriage if we are talking about the time when they only had carriages. I am just curio

[h-cost] recommendations for costume books only available at amazon.uk?

2010-05-04 Thread cw15147-hcost01
A friend of mine is ordering some things from amazon.uk, and was wondering if there's any good costuming books (or movies or TV series on video) that are only available in the UK? I had a list, but all those books are now available in the US for comparable prices. Thanks much, Claudine __

Re: [h-cost] MODERN HAIR RECEPTICLE

2010-05-04 Thread Emily Gilbert
Now I'm curious - how *do* you change clothes in a moving carriage or sleigh? Emily AVCHASE wrote: Hi, All: My Grandmother told me to save my hair in a net bag (for making rats), I should make and once a year wash it, sqeeze out the moisture in a towel, and hang to air dry. She said I'd h

Re: [h-cost] Victorian Hair: hair receptacle

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Harper
I have a past life as a theatrical hairdresser working in New York and regionally in plays, musicals and operas, and we built rats out of nylon net to use for wigs and hairstyles with the actors' own hair. Simply pick a color of net similar to the hair shade, draw up a shirred length with needle a

Re: [h-cost] MODERN HAIR RECEPTICLE

2010-05-04 Thread Marjorie Wilser
Audy, You must have had _some_ Grandmother! I should think a book of all her advice would be an excellent read. Mine was pretty clever, too, but I'm not sure her advice would fill a book. Unfortunately, she lived too far away for constant contact. == Marjorie Wilser =:=:=:Three Toad

[h-cost] MODERN HAIR RECEPTICLE

2010-05-04 Thread AVCHASE
Hi, All: My Grandmother told me to save my hair in a net bag (for making rats), I should make and once a year wash it, sqeeze out the moisture in a towel, and hang to air dry. She said I'd have to make new bags to replace the old as silk net eventually rots; then along came nylon. However, I ne

Re: [h-cost] Victorian Hair: hair receptacle

2010-05-04 Thread Alexandria Doyle
Oh yes, hair has scales and will felt! I had a lock of human hair that I dyed along with some other thing I was dying black. I had to basically card the hair afterwards to work out all the matting, think dred locks... alex On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, landofoz wrote: >> But wool has scales

Re: [h-cost] Victorian Hair: hair receptacle

2010-05-04 Thread landofoz
But wool has scales on the fibres that help the felting process hair doesn't. Nylon net. . . well, I don't want any of that stuff on my scalp :-D (of course, this _is_ Penny's topic, not mine!) Hair does have scales, just not the same as wool. Anyway -- scales are not necessary for ne