Posts to help explain why people used hair to craft jewelry that memorialized their loved ones.
http://wheremourningmeetsart.blogspot.com/2012/04/victorian-mourning-hair-art.html
This post features a book full of hair mementos from a collection of family and/or friends. These pages each represent a simple example of hairwork, but they show how hair was symbolically important to the remembrance of loved ones. Definitely a post (and blog!) worth checking out.
I saw this book on WorldCat but, since there were only original versions not reprints, I wasn’t able to get it through inter-library loan to have a look.
Enter the magic of the digital world!
THE BOOK HAS BEEN DIGITIZED HERE
Voila! The book is available on archive.org, for free, in all its beautifully designed glory!
There are some especially interesting snake designs that I plan to use in an upcoming post about the symbolism of snakes in Victorian mourning jewelry.