Hi All,

I was just watching the Antiques roadshow (US version) and the last thing they showed was a lady with a beautiful collection of jewelry made from hair.  She even had book from Peterson 1860's on how to make hair jewelry!  :o Also she had pics of the Sutherland sisters and one of a lady who hung her long hair clipped to a clothes line to dry it!   The lady herself, who was in her 60's, and had her hair up in a large bun.  She showed a picture of her hair down and it was a long lovley silver- black mane she hadden cut in years, she just trimmed her ends now and then.  I was like Wow! I wish I could get those books she had.  I have started to collect my own hair from my brush and would love to make jelwery or rats from it.

How fun!

Another use for collecting those hairs...I had a great aunt who used to use one of her hairs to tie off her braids at night.  Honest, I saw her do it ...g

Darn, I would have liked to see that.  What network is the Antique Road Show on?  I would catch it while channel surfing, but I don't watch it consistently.

Cynde

I wish I had seen that! I wonder if it'll be shown again sometime in the near future.   ???

Khrome--As far as I know, Antiques Roadshow is only on PBS.

I would have really enjoyed seeing that, if it comes on again sometime then I'll have to try and catch it.

Not antique show related, but I have to ask:

For those of you collecting your own hair for rats and whatnot, (or have known people that do), how do save it?  I've tried this, and just end up with a gross matted ball.  I'm trying to put the ends on a piece of tape hanging on the inside of my bathroom closet, but it is so time consuming that I only think of it once every couple weeks and have only hung up 10-20 hairs.  

wrote on Jul 31^st, 2005 at 8:07pm:

Not antique show related, but I have to ask: For those of you collecting your own hair for rats and whatnot, (or have known people that do), how do save it?  I've tried this, and just end up with a gross matted ball.  I'm trying to put the ends on a piece of tape hanging on the inside of my bathroom closet, but it is so time consuming that I only think of it once every couple weeks and have only hung up 10-20 hairs.

Hi Valerie,

What I do is when I take the hair from the brush I gather it into one long peice and twist it into a curl.  Then I add to the curl, this keeps it neat and not a birds nest.  :)