Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scoutshouse, post: 419935, member: 267&quot;]I don&#039;t even know where to start with this... My Croatian neighbor has been been collecting and picking in San Pedro for at least 50 years - she&#039;s close to 90. Croatians have lived here since San Pedro&#039;s settlement in the late 1700s, believe it or not!</p><p><br /></p><p>She&#039;s amassed an incredible load of authentic hand made laces, textiles, shoes, shawls and jewelry for the authentic costumes she made for an Eastern European a Capella group called Zhena she belongs to. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway - I was first just going to ask people how they would describe this item - a form of woven sterling thread, Czech crystals and fake pearls. It&#039;s 88 inches long total, double paneled, sewn together with HUMAN HAIR??? Honestly. I pulled a hair out of it as I was moving it, but when I came to inspect the seam I found it was woven with hair and some other fiber, not sure what - those bordering channels are stuffed with it. Some of the other fiber has been spun into crude thread. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a LOT of hair - it&#039;s quite heavy, as well. The back of the stones are painted gold and affixed to discs or squares. I just found them in a shoe box in the garage. </p><p><br /></p><p>Really - has anyone seen anything like this? I wonder if they were attached to the bottom of a dress? She has two of them - I just found them in a shoe box in the garage and thought they were wonderful, but this was a big surprise. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]146627[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]146628[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]146629[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]146630[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]146631[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]146632[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in