tigger5464

I can remember my Grandmother telling me that she used to coil the hair from her brush or comb and put it in a small silver box on her dresser...altho she never said what she did with it :(

raptureready

"Ladies" used to keep their lost long hairs neatly coiled for future use ON THEIR OWN HEADS!!!! The first time I read about that I nearly gagged. Yes, as their hair began to turn gray or thin their ladies maid would work the saved hair into their "do" so that the hair appeared darker and fuller. When the do was taken down that loose hair had to be combed and re-wound. YUK!

It also used to be tightly coiled into flowers for jewelry and pictures. Sometimes a "dearly departed" ones hair was made into a broach for the grieving to wear as part of their year of mourning and sometimes even longer as a rememberance. Those things are quite valuable today to some collectors. (not me)

Gal

Wool is great as it has Lanalin (SP) in it, good old fashioned wool fat, which stops rust in pins also I have heard that a tiny bit of talc in the pin tin keeps pins from going rusty.
Gal

clem55

One of the many things my grandmna had that I found so very pretty was a flower picture made of human hair. It was beautiful, and she and my G-grand made it, Mom even pointed out to mre the flower that was her hair. I wanted that picture so badly when she died, but a very greedy aunt took it for herself and then hid it behind a sofa once when I went to visit. I never cared for her after that, and then many many years later, when I asked about it, she had given it to her grand-daughter. That grand daughter never even knew my gramma! But the sunt said that she was very artistic and she would take goodf care of it. Like I wouldn"t have!! This same aunt is the one who hid all the 13 quilts that granma had made for her g-kids and never used. We were to get them when she died. "Dear aunt " knew nothing about any quilts like that, then sold them all at auction when she was moving into her daughters home. Even her daughter knew about them and didn'T get one! Those quilts sold for over $400 each and that was in the mid's. I felt nothing but hate for that aunt after that!!

QuiltingGrannie

I remember that time from when I watched my mother sew! Had forgotten about it. And it wasn't 100 yrs ago for cloth diapers - both my kids were in cloth diapers. Only used the disposable ones when we took long trips.

Deborah12687

You can use bees wax, pafrin wax or vasiline. I like the bees wax the best. I have also gotten a bad box of pins that the points of the pins are dull and won't go thru the fabric.

quiltingnonie

OMgosh...I have a dresser set that was my grandmother's - a brush, comb, hand mirror, and a lidded box with a hole in the top. The set is beautiful, with mother of pearl. I have ALWAYS wondered why the container had the hole in the top! It never ceases to amaze me what I learn on this board :D

dkabasketlady

This hint shows our true age, doesn't it? I had to use cloth diapers with my last son and remember changing cloth diapers on my younger siblings, lol!!!

amandasgramma

I just remembered.....my 6th grade school teacher (okay - back in '62) said they used to save hair and then use it to POOF up their hair. Kinda like the way we used to rat our hair. It gave the hair heighth.....think Gibson Girls

granniebj

wow never thought of that! Thx!