Retired Teacher Xiang Renxian Spent 11 Years Knitting A Hat And Coat For Her Husband Made Out Of Her Own Hair.

Rather than wash her hair down the plughole, retired teacher Xiang Renxian collected all the strands of her "wonderful long hair" and knitted it into a coat and cap.

Coat and hat

Her husband is the lucky recipient of these garments, and god help him if he loses them: it took Xiang 11 years to make. Shanghai Daily reported that she used hooked needles used for knitting sweaters, and used 110,000 of her hairs, which she has been collecting since they started falling out when she was 34.

Xiang Renxian

"The average length of hair she used for knitting is about 70 to 80 centimeters, and she used 15 hairs to make a strand of yarn. "Xiang, who is from China's Chongqing province, said: "Throughout my youth I was always famous for my wonderful long hair, and as I grew older I realised that, just like my looks, my hair was losing its lustre. I wanted to find a way to preserve that, and came up with the idea of using it to create something for my husband. Once I got into the technique that I developed, it was actually not difficult to do, you just need patience and I knew that I had the time. more