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The client would tie her own hair up and cover it with the conical shaped

hairpiece, giving plenty of hair to create elegant chignons.

Black hairdressers started buying these pieces and unpicking them,

cutting them into lengths to sew to braids, and the weave was created.

(Volume 2 Sew on Weave) Fig 15

Fig 15

Weaves became very popular so the manufacturers created the machine
weave to meet demand. The wire was not needed for the weave process

so a wefting machine is similar to a sewing machine, but is capable of
folding the hair before it sews it in place. The wefting machine would

sew 4 ounces of hair in seconds as apposed to hours with the hand tied
method. The only downside to wefting machines was; that where the hair

was turned over, it left a short fringe along the top edge of the weft.

The manufacturers dealt with this by making two 2-ounce wefts and

sewing them together with the fringe sides on the inside, so they are not

visible from the outside. The 4-ounce double weft was born.

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