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26th January 2012

the-collection-of-oddities: Beautiful Victorian mourning jewelry. Upon the death of a loved one, (most often a widow and her husband) women would pluck the hair from their head and incorporate it into a ring, necklace, bracelet, broach, or anything worth wearing. It was a typical Victorian Era practice to keep hair because hair is ever-lasting and they symbolized hair for immortality. It was the only part of the human body that kept and didnt decompose. 

the-collection-of-oddities:

Beautiful Victorian mourning jewelry. Upon the death of a loved one, (most often a widow and her husband) women would pluck the hair from their head and incorporate it into a ring, necklace, bracelet, broach, or anything worth wearing. It was a typical Victorian Era practice to keep hair because hair is ever-lasting and they symbolized hair for immortality. It was the only part of the human body that kept and didnt decompose. 

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    Memento mori and mourning jewelry are some of my favorite Victorian things. See also: postmortem photography. … I’m a...
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    i just this *sigh*
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    if i was dead and reposing with...lily in my hands at my funeral
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