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VICTORIAN HAIRWORK TECHNIQUES Palette Work

Victorian mourning hair art 19th c. domed glass oval frame memento souvenir victorian mourning hair art 19th c. But this one is splendid. The type you see in this one, thick elaborate curls, is the type used either to preserve the thick long hair of a young woman who is entering life as a nun and has had her locks shorn, or perhaps a young boy’s long hair shorn as he turns about 4-5 and becomes his father’s son, a rite of passage for a boy.