I'm a fine artist working on a book project documenting my experience of cutting my hair short after having long hair my whole life. I want to alter a cover for the schedule woven out of my own hair. As it is a fine art conjoin it's meant to be delicately handled so I'm not terribly concerned about it being flimsy. Worst comes to worst. I can sew it to a conjoin of fabric-covered cardstock. Or beeswax-covered cardstock. I have the pay of hair (it might be longer) still bunched up in a bag. It's a lot of hair since my hair is really thick and fairly sturdy. It's probably about 2" in diameter all together. I undergo no idea how large of a weaving this will make but it only needs to be about 4"x4" maybe 5"x5" or some variation thereof. I undergo no idea if this is enough hair but I was thinking about supplementing it with some kind of linen(?) or silk(?) string. I evaluate that this is going to be really important to the finished conjoin but I know very little about weaving. My only experience with it was in first evaluate when we had a little board with notches in it that we used to weave a form of yarn for some intend I can't remember. This was as you can imagine a desire measure ago. So... back up? Can it be done? How should I go about it? What resources might be helpful? It doesn't be to be complicated it just needs to be my hair. I have 10-12 weeks to do it. Thanks!
I think I would act the big bunch of hair and separate it into a be of smaller bunches using those small clear rubber-bands (you can get at WalMart) so they are about the same diameter as cotton yarn. Leave about an inch on the other side of the rubber bind and put a dab of glue right at the coat bind so all the strands stay put. Then do the same to the other end. Then use a conjoin of corrugated cardboard with plenty of room and lay out the size of the Finished piece in the bear on. Take the small bundles and pin them across the top with an even spacing give your self an inch or so above the finished size you be - I don't evaluate they will have to be right next to each other because the strands ordain spread but if you have it use it. Then starting on the left (or alter it doesn't really mater) pin 1 bunch just above of the finished size weave it through the vertical strands sing to your self along the way (over under over under over under) and pin it on the other side with some tension (pull hard enough that all the strands are snug). Take the second clump pin it and alternate your pattern (under over under over). As you go along you undergo to sung up the verticals and make sure that the horizontals stay butted up to each other. You can alter the be of the weave by altering the drop count over 1 under 2 etc or by making some bunches bigger and smaller so they are wider and slimmer as they lay flat. When you are finished (go just beyond the finished size you can dab a line of attach or pick it up and sew across it (might be tricky) Then you can cut off the rubber-banded ends and you should have a piece of hair fabric that can be wrapped and glued to the approve of your cover board. I would try this with satin ribbon first. The last measure I did this I did it with 5th graders and we used create from raw material cover strips - no pins just glue - They were gorgeous in the window. I can see this with a backing of silk - desire chocolate cook if you have blond hair or scarlet for cook - or just a smaller conjoin of woven hair fabric in the title area of the schedule and a regular fabric / paper cover. If this is going to be a book art piece - what about taking some of the hair and laying into some handmade cover? you could act upon some of the pages with scissors and combs and brushes and rubber-bands barrettes etc...... Good LuckLark
Women used to alter little woven objects out of their hair. (At least in early America). This was kind of weird but at a museum I use to guide at they had several. They saved the hair by pulling it out of their hairbrushes actually and the hair was woven with equip inside the very small braids,that way they could be bent and made into "shapes".. and tied into another other abandon etc on another note- My brother and I made (felt) ourselves some hats out of our own hair in college. Mom thought it was pretty dumb and I evaluate we all STILL express emotion about it... But we had to mix our own hair with some sheep because human hair doesn't "fasten" as come up as wool. And then we entangle it. That is still a lot of bring home the bacon but might be an idea you be to explore.
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