I see. Would that have been fashionable in the period?
I mean, not all women can get long hair, so I am thinking that there must have been different cheats in the periods when it was fashionable to have/show off long hair. False curls, wigs, extentions, whatever.
There is a lot of discussion about this. There was definitely extensions, from silk, but whether there really was braid casings is doubtful. Victorian costume historians drew them all the time, but there are now quite a few people who believe that what they saw was braids wrapped tightly in ribbons, not fabric tubes. jauncourt used to have an article about this in her site (http://jauncourt.i8.com/costume.htm), but I can't find it right now.
Not quite sure this is relevant, but there exists an old tradition in Norway of preparing one's hair with ribbons; not quite braiding, but it looks similar. It's called to "vippe håret", and it's done in Agder and Telemark (when speaking of folk costumes), probably other places too.
I tried to find pictures online, but info is scarce. The basic technique is to divide the hair into two, like you would do when making two braids. Concentrating on one side, the hair would be divided into two, and long vowen ribbon would be used to "tie" (or "loop") them together. The result is lovely, and I would not be surprised if the technique has been used for many centuries. Many women today, when wearing their folk costume, doesn't have long enough hair to "vippe" it, so they use a readymade "ring" for the head, like this: http://www.tinn.kommune.no/eksternesider/tinnbunad/Image29.gif http://www.tinn.kommune.no/eksternesider/tinnbunad/wpe18.jpg
I'm sorry for the lack of decent photos; my bookshelfs are packed with bunadsbooks, so I can probably dig up something better, maybe even find more info about where how and when people started to "vippe" their hair. I doubt it was a Norwegian technique originally, and it could be interesting to see how far back it can be followed.
That's a variety of hair taping, which is used with swedish folk costumes too. But I don't know if we use a mixture of sugar and spit to keep it in place as the women did in Norway (according to an article by Aagot Noss).
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Date: 2007-04-19 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-19 07:28 am (UTC)/Eva
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Date: 2007-04-19 08:07 am (UTC)I mean, not all women can get long hair, so I am thinking that there must have been different cheats in the periods when it was fashionable to have/show off long hair. False curls, wigs, extentions, whatever.
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Date: 2007-04-19 08:14 am (UTC)/Eva
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Date: 2007-04-19 09:27 pm (UTC)I tried to find pictures online, but info is scarce. The basic technique is to divide the hair into two, like you would do when making two braids. Concentrating on one side, the hair would be divided into two, and long vowen ribbon would be used to "tie" (or "loop") them together. The result is lovely, and I would not be surprised if the technique has been used for many centuries. Many women today, when wearing their folk costume, doesn't have long enough hair to "vippe" it, so they use a readymade "ring" for the head, like this: http://www.tinn.kommune.no/eksternesider/tinnbunad/Image29.gif
http://www.tinn.kommune.no/eksternesider/tinnbunad/wpe18.jpg
That style is to illude the "braids" that would be lair across the hear, forming a ring, like this: http://www.ingvar-skobba.no/bilder/beltestakk.jpg
I'm sorry for the lack of decent photos; my bookshelfs are packed with bunadsbooks, so I can probably dig up something better, maybe even find more info about where how and when people started to "vippe" their hair. I doubt it was a Norwegian technique originally, and it could be interesting to see how far back it can be followed.
If it's relevant at all...
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Date: 2007-04-20 05:17 am (UTC)But I don't know if we use a mixture of sugar and spit to keep it in place as the women did in Norway (according to an article by Aagot Noss).
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