For this task we were asked to take key words from our Elizabethan quotes on hair and translate them into a design using raw materials. As the quote I originally chose did not contain enough information for this task, I chose an alternative:
"Then followeth the trimming and tricking of their heds in laying out their hair to the show, which of force must be curled, frizled and crisped, laid out on wreathes & borders from one eare to an other. And lest it should fall down, it is underpropped with forks, wyres, & I can not tel what, rather like grim stern monsters, than chaste christian matrones. Then on the edges of their bolstered heir (for it standeth crested round about their frontiers, & hanging over their faces like pendices or vails with glasse windows on every side) there is layd great wreathes of gold and silver, curiously wrought & cunningly applied to the temples of their heads. And for feare of lacking any thing to set foorth their pride withal, at their heyre, thus wreathed and crested, are hanged bugles, ouches, rings, gold, silver, glasses , & such other gewgawes and trinckets besides, which, for that they be innumerable, and I unskilfull in wemens terms, I cannot easily recount."
We were also paired with another member of the group, to whom we communicated instructions on how to create the look we had designed. We then each created the same design as an exercise to show how the same thing can be interpreted differently by each individual and how proper communication can aid in producing a uniformity in the work created by a team of individuals. Above, you can see how I produced my own design and below, how my colleague produced it based on my instructions, below.
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