Tag: Business

• Sewing Shrouds: 19th-century Burial Clothing

  Chris Woodyard has always been interested in what the well-dressed corpse is wearing: a netted beadwork shroud, as worn by an Egyptian mummy; the beautiful brocades found in the royal tombs at Las Huelgas; a plain wool shroud tied at the head and foot, as modeled by John Donne in his funerary monument; or the frilled-front…

  Death and the Maiden

  20/04/2015

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  Burial Shrouds, Business, Coffins, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Design, Fashion, Gender Roles, History, Textiles, Victorian

• A Family Connection

  Social Historian, Sarah Hayes is the Collections and Exhibitions Manager at Newman Brothers Coffin Works in Birmingham. Discovering she had an ancestor working in the funeral trade in Birmingham over 150 years ago, and then of her daughter living on Fleet Street, just ten doors down from what was to become Newman Brothers Coffin Works is almost…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/04/2015

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  Ancestory, Birmingham, Burial, Business, Coffin Works, Coffins, Deadmaidens, Education, Family, Heritage, History, Industry, Museum, Newman Brothers, Objects, Trade

• Bereavement cards just got personal

  Inspired Goodbyes was created by Sophia Lucop-Leech and Helen Lawson. After experiencing their own bereavements they created a positive business making sympathy cards and gifts more personal.

  Death and the Maiden

  15/03/2015

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  Art, Bereavement, Business, Cards, Change, Charity, Child Funeral Charity, Children, Deadmaidens, Death, Design, Dying, Dying Matters, Emotion, Experiences, Expression, Grief, Illustration, Inspired Goodbyes, Loss, Memories, Sensitive, Sharing, Words

• The Corpse Brides

  If death is most often anthropomorphised into a foreboding, grinning male does it not make sense that his companion is female? The current ‘trend’ for women in the death industry is not a trend, then, but merely an influx of women taking their rightful place back at death’s side and, once again, becoming the guardians…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/03/2015

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  Academic, Anatomical Pathology Technology, Barts Pathology Museum, Business, Career, Carla Valentine, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Dying, Experiences, Gender Roles, Industry, Inspire, Mortuary, Pathology, Trends, Victorian, Women