Good tip!

Next time you go to the hairdressers and get your hair cut, bring home the surplus. (Smile.)

amandasgramma, it was called a rat.

Every night I brush my long haired cat and get a big pile of hair off of the brush. I wonder if his hair is full of oils too. If so I could just make a fat pincushion with it and keep all my needles & pins stuck in it.
(KIDDING!) I think.

I have always used this when I am hand quilting with my needles. Someone said it was natural lanolin.

Save that dog hair... Once took a rug making class from a lady at the local Jr College. She collected her dogs hair and had it spun into yarn and she made an afghan which was actually very pretty. She took a blue ribbon at the county fair. Maybe we could save some long human hair and make a neat purse.....

I remember the hair trick from when my boys were little...what an interesting thread this has become...history lesson and pet hair yarn....This place is amazing!

This is absolutely true. We toured an historical museum/repository in the west a couple years ago, and women's long hair from brushes was prized for all kinds of things, many hairfilled pincusions were displayed. We even saw some arts/craft pictorial sceneries made from hair, very detailed work, and preserved all this time in glassed frames like artwork. Stunning.

Also saw some wedding clothing made with couched hair on the embroidery work, for good luck. I might think it was pretty special to have my mom's or granmom's or even great granmom's (several generations lived together oftentimes) worked into my wedding gown.

Thanks.

Funny how most think that saving our own hair is gross, but we always save that first lock of hair from our children's first haircut!!! :)