Tag: Modern Mourning

• Making a Mourner: The Life, Love and Grief of Courtney Lane

  

  Hairwork Artist, Courtney Lane explains the Victorian tradition of sentimental hairwork and her lifelong fascination with it. It’s just as easy to chalk it up to a series of peculiar happenstances in her life that led her here, but neither of these explanations tells the whole story.

  Death and the Maiden

  28/02/2019

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  Art, Art of Mourning, Courtney Lane, Creative, Creativity, Deadmaidens, Death, Hair & Now, Hairwork, Modern Mourning, Mourning, Mourning Jewellery, Mourning Practice, Victorian

• Modern Mourning

  Laurel Witting creates bespoke pieces of jewelry that pay homage to mourning practices of the past. Each piece unique, she finds influence & sometimes materials in the forgotten corners & dusty boxes of yesterday. Handcrafting modern mourning jewelry using traditional beading patterns to both reflect Victorian design & commemorate the dead. Laurel hopes that her mourning…

  Death and the Maiden

  16/05/2016

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  Art, Beauty, Change, Creation, Creativity, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Design, Dying, Funeral, Grief, History, Loss, Modern Mourning, Mourning, Mourning Jewellery, Recycle, Society, Tradition, Victorian