Old glue-laden wigs

Here is another German bisque headed doll who has arrived for a spruce-up.
She needs something done to improve her wig and her right shoulder needs to be secured....it is hanging by just a few threads.

The mohair that makes her wig is very sparse. It is rock-hard on the top of her head. Someone used a very liberal amount of glue on this wig!
When you try to remove a glued on wig you moisten the edges with water and wait a bit and hope that the glue used was water soluble.
Patience and little dabs of water.....

and this was the result.
A glue-crusted creation that is not a traditional wefted wig.

This is the remnants of a top-knot wig where a clump of mohair was stuffed into a hole on top of the head and then glued down and styled. This particular wig had some DIY repairs that involved lots more glue and some interesting cotton lattice across the inside.
Once the glue gets soaked out and the mohair gets combed out there only a few small clumps of mohair to salvage.

This is the inside of a different top-knot wig.

It is almost identical to what this doll's original wig started as....but it is a bit too big for her and it does need some styling.

And, being a top-knot wig it is also laden with glue.
It really cannot be worked on without getting rid of the glue. So, into the bowl of water it goes.....
And out of the bowl of water comes several clumps of mohair that can be remade into a topknot wig that fits.

Here is her 'new' wig getting curled.
The mohair from her original wig was incorporated into this one and her original cardboard pate was used again.