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Headband dyed with cochineal
The hairband (cinta in Spanish) is woven with wool in a hip loom. This headband is dyed with cochineal, a natural dye made from scale insects. These scale insects live mainly on leaf cacti. Nowadays, such hairbands are mainly dyed with synthetic dye sticks.A hairband is only used by women to decorate the hair and head. This particular hairband is used during ceremonial ceremonies. The hairband is …
Type of item
- Object Type: hair accessory
- hair accessory
- Headband
- Hairstyle accessory
Date
- voor 1993
Medium
- Material: wool
- wool (hair material)
- Wool
Type of item
- Object Type: hair accessory
- hair accessory
- Headband
- Hairstyle accessory
Date
- voor 1993
Medium
- Material: wool
- wool (hair material)
- Wool
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1993
Provenance
- 2008-12-29
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/912778
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- hair (material)
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z