#wigmaker

The wigmaker job might be my favorite story in Tevinter nights.

It's a classic non-helmet wig with glued hairline and glued hair parting (the base wig had none). Spent too much time on gluing details when I could choose the base more wisely 🤣 But the customer bought the base and I had to work with it. And it was still much better than 90% of specialized Sakura Haruno wigs on the market.

Tried to balance between anime style and more natural look. And I guess I did the job pretty well this time.

Photo on the customer:

I’ve been doing some fun Cos-tober challenges in stories, the other day I did favorite wig and somehow forgot I made this one?!? I love wearing this stupid thing. It’s very light despite the size, I mostly hand stitched the whole thing to avoid weight from glue! I also made one as a commission, I almost never do wig commissions but it was for a fav client so I bent the rules a little. Made for my Puma sisters cosplay, 📷 @scoundrel.run

On May 25th 1726 the worlds first lending library opened in Edinburgh by Allan Ramsay.

Ramsay was born in Lanarkshire in 1686, and by 1701 had settled in Edinburgh as an apprentice wig-maker.

At the turn of the eighteenth century wigs were worn by men as a form of status symbol, elaborate constructions of human, goat or horse hair that often fell in ringlets below a man's shoulders, or were elevated to a significant height as a means of increasing their wearer's sense of physical stature. They were expensive products and were created by skilled craftsmen whose reputations rested on their ability to create ever newer and greater objects for their customers to display in public.

By 1712 Ramsay had become a well-known wig-maker of excellent reputation with premises on the High Street, Royal Mile, for the richest and most high status customers to buy.

During this time Allan, through his love of reading and literature, became involved with the Easy Club, a cultural group established to celebrate traditional Scots writing. From this association Ramsay began writing, and by 1718 was a successful enough poet to turn his wig shop into a bookshop. Some people have credited Ramsay's early writing with being a major influence on the careers of Robert Fergusson, and later Robert Burns.

In time Ramsay's bookshop mutated into the world's first organised circulating library, a cultural hub for readers to borrow books, magazines and periodicals and take them away in order to peruse them at leisure, and then return them for other readers to enjoy.

The modern notion of a library providing such access free of charge is quite different from the original circulating library system, where members where charged an annual subscription fee in order to have access to the collections of materials available. The early function of such organisations was not primarily an educational one, as might be expected, but a capitalist one - to profit from those who had money to spend on such memberships.

In Edinburgh, the rise of the Enlightenment ideals and the city's relative affluence made Ramsay's library a roaring success, and he was able to spend time focusing on his own writing, penning not just poems but also dramas, his 1725 pastoral play The Gentle Shepherd being performed and celebrated as a work of theatre in his own lifetime.

Ramsay GardenRamsay opened a theatre on Carubbers Close, off the High Street, which was opposed by the religious fervour of the Calvinists, and later forced to close. Ramsay railed against the dour principles of the Presbyterian church in some of his poems of this time.

​​In 1740 Ramsay retired to the house he had built for himself, still seen on the land immediately east of Edinburgh Castle - the cream and orange coloured building at the top of the Royal Mile is called Ramsay Garden, and the central structure - Ramsay's original home - was popularly known during his own lifetime as 'Goose Pie House' because of it’s octagonal shape.

"You are my seed of destiny."🥀♥️

Camellya is my first cosplay from Wuthering Waves! This cosplay was out of love for my favorite character. Wig made by me, and photoshoot setup & edition made by me.

Be ready for a super cool photoset!