{"id":1355,"date":"2021-01-13T06:34:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2021-01-13T06:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:35:57","slug":"elevated-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2021\/01\/13\/elevated-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevated Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Recreation of a Dunhuang donor portrait by The Chinese Historical Costume Restoration Team.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I knew I would need to use some false hair for my elevation in order to get the look I wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quick recap – Tang Dynasty ladies loved elaborate, up-do hair styles that often called for padding or false hair (called “adopted hair”) to achieve the looks we see in statuary, murals, and paintings. For a more detailed look at the three basic kinds of hairdressing (hair, false hair, and headdresses), Zhang Jianhin’s essay in The Tomb of Li Chui<\/a> is a good place to start. For images of modern recreations of these hair styles, see Hair Fashions of Tang Dynasty Women<\/em>, by He, Jian’guo (\u4f55\u5efa\u570b)<\/a> or this guide to recreating historic Chinese hairstyles<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I even found a tutorial on BiliBili<\/a>, China’s largest video-sharing platform (like YouTube), but when I sat down to try and make it, I was a million thumbs. I couldn’t get the hair to behave at all the way that the person in the video did, and I was getting really frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s when Phaedra de Vere<\/a> came to my rescue. She offered to make it for me, and I gratefully accepted, sending her money and measurements and crossing it off my list, knowing that I was in good hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phaedra made the hairpiece out of wire and hair donuts, covering it with layers of faux wefts color matched my (current) hair color (Arda CL-070).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hairpiece’s bones – hair donuts that have been cut and put onto a wire frame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The finished hairpiece, with hair nets to fight flyaways.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The guts of the hairpiece – space enough for me to tuck a bun into it, with an arrow indicating the front.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She’s absolutely stunning. Heavy – but stunning! And aptly now named “Phae” in honor of her creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me, during the elevation ceremony. Picture courtesy Sir Conal MacDale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ll be writing another post about the various accessories I wore in my hair, courtesy of some truly awesome artisans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew I would need to use some false hair for my elevation in order to get the look I wanted. Quick recap – Tang Dynasty ladies loved elaborate, up-do hair styles that often called for padding or false hair (called “adopted hair”) to achieve the looks we see in statuary, murals, and paintings. For … Continue reading “Elevated Hair”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[562,92],"tags":[561,262,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-lR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}