How are hand-implanted or hand-knotted pieces constructed?
For almost all wigs and hairpieces, hair is attached to the wig base with ventilating needles. Ventilating needles come in various sizes and have small hooks at the end designed to pull a specific number of hairs from the hair bundle and insert them into the base material. The needles with the smallest hooks will pull one hair shaft at a time. Larger hook versions can pull up to 8 hair shafts at a time. Single hair shaft knotting or implanting looks the most natural, and is also the most expensive. Hand-Implantation on Molded Bases: Hand-implantation is used on suction or vacuum fit hairpieces. Once the molded base is made, the hair is implanted into it one shaft at a time, or up to five shafts at a time. The single shaft method duplicates the pattern of growth hair and provides the most natural looking results. The multi-shaft implantation can be less expensive, but may be less natural looking, especially at the part line or crown. When hair is implanted, the angle of implantation var
