Hairwork:

Example of palette work brooch from VictorianHairArtists.com website

Victorian Hairwork Society - an organization for hairwork artists REMEMBERING A LOVED ONE WITH MOURNING JEWELRY, by Susan and Jim Harran, for AntiqueWeek Dec 1997, reprinted on the Victorian Hairwork Society website. It gives a quick run-down on various types of mourning jewelry. Four Techniques of Hair Work: (from VictorianHairArtists.com -- includes examples and explanations of table work, palette work, sepia painting and hair flowers. VictorianHairArtists.com: An Affiliation of Artists Creating Ornamental Hair Work www.Hairwork.com -- source for braiding tables, hair, instructional videos and other hairwork supplies Leila's Hair Museum, Independence MO ThingsGoneBy.com -- antique jewelry dealer's website with many pictures of orginal hairwork pieces, including jewelry, and memorial art pictures.

See also: articles about mourning in our 19th century life and society section.

Workshops:

Kay Cogswell has been conducting hairwork workshops at the last two Ladies of the 1860's conferences and lives in Northern Virginia

Bibiliography:

• Collectors Encyclopedia of Hairwork Jewelry by C. Jeanenne Bell
• THE ART OF HAIR WORK, HAIR BRAIDING AND JEWELRY OF SENTIMENT, Mark Campbell.
• Sentimental Jewellery by Ann Louise Luthi