Baller Alert's Black History Month Facts - blogged by: @eleven8 Christina M. Jenkins, born in 1928, is credited with inventing the hair weaving technique. Christina, a native of Louisiana, began researching ways to secure wigs and hairpieces while working for a Chicago wig manufacturer in 1949. In the early 1950’s Jenkins invented the process of interweaving strands of live hair and strands of commercial hair, with cord like material to permanently join the strands thereto. It was time consuming, but lasted longer. She received the patent for this process in 1951. Though wigs and hair pieces had been worn for thousands of years by people of different races, it was Christina Jenkins who came up with this particular idea. Prior to the Christina inventing the process of sewing weave onto the hair, people would put the weave hair on to hair pins placed on the scalp. Christina was married to a jazz musician named Herman Duke Jenkins. The couple lived n Ohio where they formed their company “Christina’s Hair-Weev.” People loved the look and technique so much that they would pay Christina to travel across the country to teach them how to apply a hair weave. #christinajenkins #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #bablackhistory A photo posted by Baller Alert (@balleralert) on Feb 3, 2017 at 9:33am PST
Baller Alert's Black History Month Facts - blogged by: @eleven8 Christina M. Jenkins, born in 1928, is credited with inventing the hair weaving technique. Christina, a native of Louisiana, began researching ways to secure wigs and hairpieces while working for a Chicago wig manufacturer in 1949. In the early 1950’s Jenkins invented the process of interweaving strands of live hair and strands of commercial hair, with cord like material to permanently join the strands thereto. It was time consuming, but lasted longer. She received the patent for this process in 1951. Though wigs and hair pieces had been worn for thousands of years by people of different races, it was Christina Jenkins who came up with this particular idea. Prior to the Christina inventing the process of sewing weave onto the hair, people would put the weave hair on to hair pins placed on the scalp. Christina was married to a jazz musician named Herman Duke Jenkins. The couple lived n Ohio where they formed their company “Christina’s Hair-Weev.” People loved the look and technique so much that they would pay Christina to travel across the country to teach them how to apply a hair weave. #christinajenkins #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #bablackhistory
A photo posted by Baller Alert (@balleralert) on Feb 3, 2017 at 9:33am PST