{"id":58,"date":"2014-10-06T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/?p=58"},"modified":"2014-10-06T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:41:34","slug":"58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/58\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Hairwork and Embellished Diadem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 589px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fidmmuseum.org\/museum\/2014\/09\/hairwork-diadem.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fidmmuseum.org\/.a\/6a01156f47abbe970c01b8d073a65d970c-pi\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">How gorgeous is this?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just look at that, what a beautiful piece of professional hairwork! The hairwork structure is adorned with gold, turquoise, garnet, and pearls.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rather opulent look of this piece, it was likely a piece of mourning jewelry. The FIDM site describes the symbolism of the piece as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Its floral symbolism and stone selection signify that it was worn at a time of mourning: the thorny acanthus leaves set with a mauve garnet connote the pain of separation at death, the turquoise-mounted flowers on either side are forget-me-nots, and the pearl trimmed buds represent the tears of the gods.<a title=\"Jump to Footnotes at end of page\" href=\"#footnote\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While this piece really stood out and just had to be highlighted, you can find many more items through our Pinterest and Flickr sites.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know in the comments below if there are any hairwork pieces that really stand out to you!<\/p>\n<h6 id=\"footnote\">Footnotes<\/h6>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fidmmuseum.org\/museum\/2014\/09\/hairwork-diadem.html\">FIDM &#8220;Hairwork diadem&#8221; item page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just look at that, what a beautiful piece of professional hairwork! The hairwork structure is adorned with gold, turquoise, garnet, and pearls. Despite the rather opulent look of this piece, it was likely a piece of mourning jewelry. The FIDM site describes the symbolism of the piece as follows: Its floral symbolism and stone selection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,15,17,12,20,19,16,18,13],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-diadem","tag-garnet","tag-gold","tag-hairwork","tag-jewelry","tag-mourning","tag-pearl","tag-turquoise","tag-victoriana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s56XjC-58","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/hairworkhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}