This post is a sort of follow-up to a previous one about traditional costumes at the British Museum (I can already anticipate that there will be more since I've recently locked myself in there for quite a few days/hours for some personal researches).
Yet this post doesn't have anything to do strictly with costumes but it's more focused on accessories and hairstyles.
This picture relates indeed to a false hair ornament from Macedonia made with twisted strands of wool and bast fibre threaded with glass beads.
The ornament was used as a hair extension (and that's what fascinated me about it - though this idea could be reused also for a knitwear piece): you would hook it at the shoulders or at the waist and it could reach as far as the knees, forming a sort of web on the shoulders and at the back. The two coins were used to ward off the evil eye.
Olive Lodge in Peasant Life in Yugoslavia (1942) wrote about the ornament: "Sometimes the hair is done in many plaits which are lengthened and ornamented with strands of coloured wool and wood-fibre. This forms a kind of web, ending in a tassel that reaches almost to the knee."
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Wow, Shocks!! Thanks for sharing this photo to us.
Posted by: hair re-growth | September 16, 2011 at 05:02 AM
Yeah, I agree, really thankful for sharing this.
It was so interesting.
Posted by: Mens Suits | September 19, 2011 at 05:45 PM