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His Little Room

A mattress and pillow stuffed with hair still remained in one of the rooms.
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How does a pillow stuffed with hair feel?
Amanda
Tue 08-30-2005
It feels a lil hairy
~Me
Tue 08-30-2005
Having a Bad Hair Day? It just might be your Pillow!!
silkster40z
Wed 08-31-2005
OMG silkster, i havent laughed that hard in a long time, hehehe
anna
Thu 09-01-2005
Hair-stuffed things feel pretty dense. It's a firm padding.
collaboration
Sun 09-04-2005
You can actually see the indentions and wrinkles in the mattress where someone slept.
Dalacoop
Sat 09-24-2005
Damn.
r.kitty
Mon 10-10-2005
This room really evokes a feeling of sadness, and despair.
Bonnie
Mon 10-24-2005
During WWII the Nazis would stuff matresses and pillows with the hair of concentration camp prisoners. Its just a thought, and most likely a false one, but what if those pillows were stuffed with the hair of patients.
Viveka
Fri 10-28-2005
Great perspective involved in this shot, playing on the idea that there was once human contact with the mattress, which offered a place of comfort for the patient. Years later, he or she is absent, leaving a harsh, cold look in this decaying place.
Paul
Sat 11-05-2005
EWW, that is NASTY. Look at the stains half way down it too...
Well hey at least we now know what they did when they cut patients' hair.
poisonousxbeauty
Thu 11-17-2005
it kind of looks like someone is sitting on the mattress.
Hiei
Mon 12-12-2005
ewe does anyone thing that people are still sleeping here? (bums)
Renee
Wed 12-20-2006
OK, dumb question, but WHY WHY WHY would a pillow be stuffed with HAIR?....why not just regular....I don't know, PILLOW stuffing?...Would it be human hair? That's just a little macabre to think about....maybe it's horse hair, like they used to stuff couches with. If it's human, that's just WRONG!!...:-0
nvusofmotts
Wed 12-20-2006
Probably because that icky polyester stuff wasn't in existence or widely used when the pillow was made.
Navi.
Thu 12-21-2006
....hmmm. Yep, you're probably right. But what about feathers or down?.....cotton batting?....torn (clean) strips of rags?, SOMETHING besides HAIR.?..OK, I'm trying...:-)....I don't know. It just seems....yucky to sleep on a hair-filled pillow...:-p...(shudder)...
nvusofmotts
Fri 12-22-2006
Most mattresses and some pillows were stuffed with horse hair until relatively recently:

http://www.hgtv.com/hg...3453_1389839,00.html
Lynne
Fri 12-22-2006
Yeag, guess so, Lynne. You're right, I know (horse-hair couches, etc...). ...I just...eeww!...still weird to me. Of course, I also think it's rather bizarre that people even today will buy another person's cut-off hair (albeit clean & processed) and attatch it to their OWN head (human hair extensions)......just a little "not-right" to me....but, who am I to say....(shrugs)...:-)..Getting off track, but ..same goes for super-gluing pieces of plastic to your real fingernails.....:-0,,,? (wrenches self back to subject of photo.....)
nvuosfmotts
Sat 12-23-2006
BTW, Lynne, I enjoy reading your explanations of things on this site. They shed a little light on these "dark" places, I think...:-)...
nvusofmotts
Wed 12-27-2006
Thanks! It's an interesting field, to say the least. I have enjoyed learning about it as I have worked in different places, and this site has challenged me to learn even more.
Lynne
Wed 12-27-2006
great shot and concept.
this room has a lot of personality.
Coreena
Tue 10-28-2008
^^^Whatever they said.

LOL!
Rekrats
Sat 06-06-2009
to answer the original question asked "How does a pillow stuffed with hair feel?" with it's hands. sorry I just had to say it.
binabinaaa
Sat 08-22-2009
i hope they wash the hair before its put in the pillow or mattress or before its cut from the donor / victom nothing worse than smelling dirty old hair....yuck
marky-mark
Thu 03-18-2010
Very intense Quality, but yet the picture indeed is depressing.
Makayla
Sat 05-01-2010
stuffed with hair?
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ISH!
Tjo
Mon 02-21-2011

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