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Written in 2007: a science fiction story about a young girl spending her pocket money on 3d printed barrettes and hair clips …

On the blog Myriad Whimsies I discovered a “this could have been me” story of a young girl called Jovanica, who is a regular customer of a street kiosk selling 3d printed stuff. Jovanica is returning day after day with her pocket-money to buy

Kathy October 7, 2016October 9, 2016 Future vision No Comments Read more

Plastic vintage barrettes from the 50s

With a simple search on Etsy or Pinterest you can easily find 1000+ images of vintage fifties barrettes and hair accessories. Some of them cause an immediate ‘coup de foudre’: how beautiful are the clips in the tiny bag of Paulette hair accessory. Vintage

Kathy October 5, 2016October 9, 2016 Vintage No Comments Read more

Could we have the Buch and Deichmann hair barrettes back on the market?

A bit of history: Buch and Deichmann (B&D) Denmark started up in the early 1970’s. Designer Ketty Dalsgaard, inspired by the ropes of local fishing vessels in Denmark, started with a collection of bright coloured plastic bracelets. The pieces were made of a nylon type of softer

Kathy September 19, 2016December 11, 2016 Vintage 20 Comments Read more

Water resistant hair clip systems

It would be a significant advantage if 3D printed hair clips didn’t need metal springs anymore. The spring often gets rusty if one wears the hair clip while swimming. Yesterday a friend pointed out to me that women in the seventies wore different

Kathy September 16, 2016September 19, 2016 Water resistant No Comments Read more

Inspired by Japanese fiction: Lain’s Hair Clip

According to Wikipedia ‘Serial Experiments Lain‘ is a Japanese franchise that includes an anime, a game and several artbooks and other publications. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura (character design

Kathy September 13, 2016September 21, 2016 Style icons No Comments Read more

Simple yet elegant white hair accessories design

There’s a huge wow-factor in the 3D printed hair accessories in pure white produced by design atelier Monocircus. My absolute favorite is the ORCHID comb. Apparently it was first created as a brooch, but because of the many suggestions from

Kathy September 1, 2016September 1, 2016 Wedding No Comments Read more

Brigitte Bardot knew just what to do with a hair clip.

This is my first post. Let’s kick off with Brigitte Bardot, because among other reasons why to love her, she just knew what to do with a hair clip. The reason I start with this blog is to collect pictures

Kathy August 24, 2016August 31, 2016 Style icons No Comments Read more
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  • Test 4: the B&D model hair clip printed in PLA
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