Emma Copeland(I)
- Editorial Department
- Make-Up Department
Emma Copeland is a trained and qualified wig maker who specializes in small historically accurate add on hair pieces. Her specialist area is the gentleman's queue which she makes entirely by hand from a combination of human and horse hair. The queues and other hairpieces are especially popular with reenactor groups, theatrical stage productions and period film pieces.
She has worked on a number of amateur stage productions and showcased her work at the Jane Austin festival in Bath, UK and at the annual TORM reenactors fair, UK.
She was responsible for the hair and make-up for the period docudrama '1599: A True Story of the Elizabethan Court' 2016 which was film on location at Haddon Hall, Cheshire and Ordsall Hall, Salford, UK.
Emma Copeland was born on 30th August 1967 to Mary Copeland and James O Copeland (author of The Butler 1981 and For The Love of Ann 1973), she has one older sibling Shareon Nisbet who is a journalist and business owner.
Emma grew her passion for hair and wigs from firstly a love of vintage hats and shoes which she collected from vintage fairs and thrift stores. One day a seller was selling a 'job lot' of old vintage hair pieces and fascinated she bought them. Nearly all were made from human hair and hand made and so the love of making these intricate pieces was born.
She attended a specialist one year course in wig making at her local college in 2005 and upon passing that she then embarked on a further 2 year course learning about theatrical make-up and hair. On completing the courses she started her own business 'Era Hairpieces' in 2009
Emma receives orders for her hairpieces from all over the world.