President Ulysses S. Grant's Family hair wreath





it is all human hair








Hair wreath made in 1880. In the Howard County Museum in Kokomo, Indiana 

LARGE 19TH CENTURY HUMAN HAIR MEMORIAL WREATH 


HUMAN HAIR WREATH BUBBLE GLASS


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Leila Cohoon’s Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri. Его экспозиция состоит из 159 венков и более 2 тысяч украшений из волос, начиная с 17 века.




"genealogy" hair wreath at Leila's Hair Museum in Independence 
Victorian ladies would often collect hair from family members to weave into hair "wreaths" for purposes of preserving family history. The genealogy of this famly is ritten in the center of this framed wreath. 




Leila's Hair Museum includes over 300 hair "wreaths" as well as other 3 D art objects such as this domed hair tree. 


This was a piece of jewelry made to mourn the person whose hair is used as the branches of the weeping willow. Many Victorian hair pieces were made to honor those who had passed away. 


Leila Cohoon’s Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri displays 159 wreaths and more than 2,000 pieces of jewelry made out of human hair. Though turning hair into wreaths was something of a Victorian obsession, hair art actually dates back to at least the 1400s. 

Some of the displays in Cohoon’s collection come from as far back as the 17th century. In an age before photography, collecting hair was a way of capturing the essence of a person at a point in time, and keeping the memory of a deceased love one near. “That is the only part of that human body that’s still here,” says Cohoon.
http://mystic-places.blogspot.com/2007/10/leilas-hair-museum.html

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During the Victorian era, the custom of making art from hair became popular as a form of artistic memorial. It was used in jewelry, love tokens and hair wreathes, the latter of which could encompass hair from the members of one�s church, school, and family.

To make a hair wreath, hair was collected from the deceased, formed into a shape (usually a flower), and added to a horseshoe-shaped wreath. The top was not connected and remained open to symbolize the ascent heavenward. Usually, the hair in the center of the wreath belonged to the most recently deceased family member; it would remain until another family member died, then be pushed aside to make room for the hair of the newly deceased. 

Викторианское траурное убранство:
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http://www.victorianalady.com/sliferhousemourning.html
http://images.google.ru/images?hl=ru&newwindow=1&q=mourning++HAIR+WREATH&sa=N&start=20&ndsp=20
http://www.morninggloryjewelry.com/victorian-hair-jewlery-c-77.html
http://imageevent.com/bluboi/fine
http://artofmourning.com/brooches.html
http://images.google.ru/images?hl=ru&newwindow=1&sa=1&q=mourning++hair+needlework&btnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA+%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA&aq=f&oq=&start=0
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Серия сообщений "Готика и готы":

Страшно, но красиво.

Часть 1 - Готический костюм
Часть 2 - Москва после смерти Путеводитель по кладбищам: где гулять, что смотреть и сколько стоит умереть
...
Часть 36 - НЕОГОТИЧЕСКИЕ И НЕОКЛАССИЧЕСКИЕ ЮВЕЛИРНЫЕ УКРАШЕНИЯ ИЗ ЧУГУНА. часть 2
Часть 37 - Мемориальные украшения и композиции из волос- 1
Часть 38 - Мемориальные украшения и композиции из волос- 2
Часть 39 - Сент-Женевьев де Буа. Кладбище великих- 1
Часть 40 - Фотографии мертвых на память: странности викторианской эпохи
...
Часть 45 - Лесной Царь. Der Erlkönig
Часть 46 - Сюжет о трех бродячих покойниках и трех кандидатах в мертвецы
Часть 47 - Призрачный Провиденс Лавкрафта