Fabric Hair Extensions

Abstract

A hair accessory designed to augment apparent hair length and thickness. The accessory is crafted from a rectangular piece of fabric, two ornamental beads, and a circular elastic band. The beads/elastic component of the accessory are mounted near the edge along one of the lenghts of the fabric. They are either slid through a small loop installed on the fabric or the elastic containing the beads is sewn directly to one edge of the fabric. The elastic and beads wrap around the hair at the base of the neck and the two hemispheres of the fabric are blended with the hair into a cornrow. The cornrow is blended to the desired length and the bottom end is secured with a circular elastic band commonly used for tying pony tails. In a variation of the aforementioned accessory the two beads are mounted on a circular elastic band which is threaded through a seam sewn along one of the width dimensions of the rectangular fabric. The second embodiment is also intended to be wrapped around a pony tail gathered at the base of the neck by means of its beads/elastic component. Wrapping the beads and elastic around the hair would also cause the rectangular fabric to wrap around the hair as it flows over it.

I claim: 
     
         1 . I claim a fabric hair accessory designed to augment the apparent length and thickness of a bundle of human hair blended into a corn row. Such accessory comprising two beads or buttons, an elastic loop commonly used for securing pony tails in the arts of hair accessories, and a rectangular stretch of fabric attached to the elastic. 
     
     
         2 . The contraption of  claim 1  where the rectangular piece of fabric is detachably attached to the elastic band by means of a snap, hook, Velcro etc. 
     
     
         3 . The contraption of  claim 1  where such canvas piece of fabric is permanently attached to an elastic band commonly used in the arts of securing pony tails by insertion of the elastic through a loop sewn onto the fabric. 
     
     
         4 . The contraption of  claim 1  where the fabric component is permanently attached to a circular piece of elastic by sewing the fabric to the elastic band at a single point. 
     
     
         5 . The contraption of  claims 1  through  4  where two beads are strewn onto the elastic, one on each side of the point of attachment of the elastic to the fabric. 
     
     
         6 . The contraption of  claims 1  through  5  where the elastic is attached roughly midway between longitudinal terminals of the rectangular piece of fabric. 
     
     
         7 . The hair accessory of  claim 1  through  6  where such hair accessory is a billboard for carrying a social, economic, political, design, advertisement, affiliation or propaganda message. 
     
     
         8 . A hair accessory used to augment the apparent length or thickness of a pony tail comprising a rectangular stretch of fabric, a circular piece of elastic commonly used in the arts for tying pony tails, and two beads or ornamental buttons. 
     
     
         9 . The hair accessory of  claim 8  where such circular elastic band is threaded through a seam sewn along one of the edges of the fabric and the beads/ornamental buttons protrude out from the ends of the seam. 
     
     
         10 . The hair accessory of  claims 8  and  9  in which the ornamental fabric wraps around the pony tail along with the elastic/beads component and covers the entire length of the pony tail or a fraction of the length of the pony tail. 
     
     
         11 . The hair accessory of  claims 8  through  10  where such hair accessory is a billboard for carrying a social, economic, political, design, advertisement, affiliation or propaganda message.