is it possible to make your own socks from human hair?
Taking the question seriously: to make a yarn from any hair the hair must have something that help the hair cling together: either scales or small bends in the fiberSmooth shiny blonde and lighter hair will not work because the cuticle (scales) are usually closed and the shaft is smooth with no kinks of bendsWhite hairs can be blended with other animal hair because white hairs have a scalier cuticleThick, frizzy coarse hair is best but still need to be blended with another animal hair for strengthOn its own human hair will not stay together no matter how tightly spun or how frizzy the hair is: the cuticle does not stick out enough nor are the bends and kink enough for the fibers to lock togetherIt's like trying to spin milkweed fluff many unconventional animal hairs are used to make yarn but due to limitation in the structure of the hair they are blended with sheep wool which has the necessary cuticle structure and the fine kinks needed to give a yarn the strength requiredIn the victorian era human hair was used for many arts and crafts: embroidery, a type of 3-D embellishment similar to modern stumpwork, braiding and looping into ornamental wreathes and for knitting and crochet One place that human hairs were used -and possibly still used -is for reinforcing invisible re-weaving and mending of woollen fabricsIt's an old-time tailor's method: when a woollen develops and hole a tailor will ravel some threads from a hem or seam and re-weave a patch right on the fabricAfter the yarn re-weave the tailor will use a human hair to reinforce the weaveThe old time tailor will use a long white hair that's been cleaned and degreasedI learned how to use a human hair but I use a fine translucent thread for finishingseems less icky.
In Texas we like to use as close to body tempas possibleBut if the water is cold it's usually not that big of a deal, with a broke horse.
