Wire work - gimp.
Here I’m using natural, synthetic, and horse hair to practice wire wrapping techniques, also known as gimp. Making various shapes and flowers with strands of hair. This is the same technique and similar shapes to what you would find in traditional Victorian hair wreaths. Can you tell what those bottom puffs will be?
zen, practicing wire work, 2021
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Making Victorian Hair Wreaths - Wire Gimp Work
Just like the Catholic church treated the physical remains of Saints as holy relics on altars, hair served as secular relics for personal sentiments in the home before photographs were widely available. Read More…
