'To make the haire yellow as golde. Take the rine or scrapings of Rubarbe, and stiepe it in white wine, or in cleere lie; and after you have washed your head with it, you shall weatte your haires with a spoonge or some other cloth, and let them drie by the fire, or in the sunne; after this wette them and drie againe.'- Giovanni Ruscelli 1568
This image was the outcome of my interpretation of an Elizabethan quote on hair. We had materials such as string, hair pieces, netting and ribbon available to use, and we had to create the style on a piece of A3 paper.
I had to take instructions form my partner on how the outcome should look according to their interpretation of their Elizabethan hair quote. The key words she took note of were 'yellow', 'rubarbe', 'white wine', 'sunne', 'drie', 'fire', 'cloth' and 'golde'. She envisioned the hairstyle to be tightly curled onto of the head in a crescent like shape, so for this I cut up some short hair extensions and wrapped them into curls and stuck them down with pritt stick. She then pictured it to have a white netting over the top of the curls so i stuck sheer white netting over them. For the bottom part of the hair, she pictured there to be wavy long blonde hair with red in it, taking inspiration from the word 'fire' in particular'.
If i had had more time i would have added to the curls onto of the head to make it stand taller, and i would have also added more hair to the loose hair.
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