This series of four guides will deal in some detail with decorative combs and hair accessories of the Art Deco period, which spans the years from approximately 1910-1940. This first essay discusses the origins...
This is the first of two guides I shall write on Spanish mantilla combs or Peinetas. In this first one I will be concentrating upon the historical aspect of how they developed. I shall also show illustrations...
This fourth in my series of guides on the combs and hair accessories of the Art Deco period looks in greater detail at some of the definitive design motifs and decorative effects found. It does not aspire to...
In this guide I describe the development of ornamental combs and similar hair accesories from their beginnings in the late 18th century to the late 1830s. In British history this coincides with the periods...
The third of my guides to the combs and hair accessories of the Art Deco period discusses in detail the work of Auguste Bonaz, the master comb maker of the Art Deco period. Indeed, no discussion of Art Deco...
In the first of my guides on Spanish Mantilla Combs, I traced their development to the end of the 19th century. This discussion traces the popularity of the mantilla type comb in the early 20th century and...
INTRODUCTION: This is one of the first dolls I purchased in the 1980's to start a doll collection and the third of its type that I have owned. However, it was not until this year (2007) that I learned much...
Here I discuss the changes in fashion and hairdressing, linking them to events in the wider social world which affected the design of ornamental hair combs in the period 1870 - 1880. This account draws upon...