{"id":529,"date":"2012-07-26T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/hair-2\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T21:04:00","slug":"hair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/hair-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cGimme head with hair<\/div>\n
\nLong beautiful hair<\/div>\n
\nShining, gleaming<\/div>\n
\nStreaming, flaxen, waxen\u201d<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHair, the musical opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran
\nfor 1,750 performances.  A London
\nproduction ran for nearly 2,000 performances. 
\nI saw Hair in Washington DC and I must say it was a revelation.  Perhaps it is not so controversial today,
\nbut profanity, nudity and political rebellion certainly was at that time.  Still, many of us can at least hum the
\ntunes, if not totally successful with all the lyrics.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHair and textile history? 
\nWell, the point is that hair is an animal fiber, often termed
\ninterchangeably with fur or wool or kemp depending upon the species of
\nanimal.  For instance, \u201cmy cat has a
\nbeautiful fur coat but the cat hair all over the furniture is driving me
\ncrazy\u201d.  <\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAs you can see from the diagram, wool, hair and kemp are
\nmorphologically different but all arise from the epidermis of the skin, this
\nincludes human hair.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nToday, we are not discussing hair as a textile fiber but the
\nuse of human hair in quite a different way.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nSince ancient times a woman\u2019s hair was regarded as one of
\nher most attractive<\/div>\n
\nphysical attributes. 
\nHair styles reflected the fashion of the day.  Curling, straightening, dyeing techniques have been employed both
\nprofessionally by stylists as well as in the home. Great care was taken  in selecting brushes, combs and other
\naccessories for the lady\u2019s vanity or dressing table.  These accessories were often costly and carefully kept safely in
\nelaborate boxes, or fabric envelopes.  Very
\npopular were embroidered fabric liners or embroidered bags.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nFrom Victorian times to the mid 1900\u2019s a common accessory
\nfor the vanity was a hair receiver. 
\nThese receptacles can be identified by the center hole in the lid into
\nwhich hair taken from combs and hairbrushes was \u201cpoked\u201d.  Usually round, but may be square in shape,
\nsome were footed and were made form a variety of materials: porcelain, metal,
\nglass and celluloid.  Celluloid is a
\ntough thermoplastic compound, which was used to replace ivory.  It was easily shaped and used for dressing
\ntable sets, dolls, picture frames, buttons and buckles.  Unfortunately it was flammable and was
\nsubsequently replaced by Bakelite and Catalin. 
\nBoth are usually referred to as Bakelite, however Bakelite was produced
\nin only 2 colors, black and brown.  Used
\nfor appliances, pot handles because it did not melt.  What we refer to as Bakelite colorful jewelry was actually
\nCatalin, which was produced in a glorious rainbow of colors.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n                <\/div>\n
\n                                                             Celluloid hair receiver<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nSo what happened to the hair from the receivers?  Some may think it was used in Victorian hair
\nwork called Pointe Tresse, using fine hair for embroidery and mourning wreaths.
\nBut this required straight hair (usually cut) and not tangled from combing.  Actually, the hair was used as stuffing for
\npin cushions and often to stuff ratts. 
\nRatts were made from stuffed netting and inserted as part of the woman\u2019s
\nhair style for fullness.  I guess the
\nwomen could then truthfully say that their style was not a wig but \u201call their
\nown hair\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGimme head with hair Long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming Streaming, flaxen, waxen\u201d Hair, the musical opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances.  A London production ran for nearly 2,000 performances.  I saw Hair in Washington DC and I must say it was a revelation.  Perhaps it is not so controversial today,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}