Antique Victorian Hair Work Mourning Jewelry CD 1851-77
155, 140 & 128-yr-old
Etchings & Instructions for Hairwork Mourning Jewelry, Rings, Bracelets, Ear Rings, Hair Nets
and Purses
CD Republication™
Originally published in 1877!
Up for your consideration is another marvelous
Dakota Prairie Treasures CD Republication™ of the original "Hair-work"
instructions with steel plate etchings by experienced mourning jewelry artists
from the early to pre- Victorian hair work arts era. This is a
newly updated compilation
of information originally published in 1851, 1866 and 1877!
(Originals are NOT for sale)
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favorite CD Republications™ are now becoming
available in Spiral Bound Pattern Book™ format!
If you would prefer this antique hair working instructions as
a Spiral Bound Pattern Book™ instead of a CD Republication™ please e-mail! We
will list it for you ASAP and e-mail you it's listing number to
expedite your order! This item is a great resource
for those who are Antebellum, Civil Ware, Victorian and Dickens era historical reenactment enthusiasts, students of historical hairwork, unique remembrance or morning jewelry makers, etc!
This HISTORIC item contains
etchings, instructions, diagrams, designs, materials lists and
fundamentals for creating a variety of hair work art items. There are 35 ANTIQUE
etchings of designs for hair and bead ORNAMENTS with all social, cultural
and historical instructions intact!
This type of original
information is seldom found on eBay or elsewhere! I was fortunate enough in
my bibliomaniacal searching to run across the original text gems and
am sharing with those who love the old arts as much as I.
These instructions are characteristic of
the crafts done by our lady ancestors during the Antebellum, Civial War,
Victorian and Dickens cultural periods. This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your
own version of another wonderful creative art informational
source revealing our heritage from early America and European!
Quotes:
"As the hair is the only part
of our beloved friends which can be kept in memoriam, it is natural that we
should desire to preserve the treasure in some way that will testify our
appreciation of its value, and when this can be done in a manner that is both
pleasing to the taste and that will insure its prolonged or lasting
preservation, it becomes a work which all may desire to be able to successfully
practice…The ability to so arrange and secure each strand of the sacred
treasure, becomes an accomplishment truly valuable, and worthy all the patience
and skill required in its performance."
"The smoothness and regularity
of hair-work is its greatest beauty, and there is no branch of fancy work which
requires so few rules, or which may be so readily acquired by practice. A
dexterous use of the fingers, neatness of finish, and that skill in
manipulating, called "nimble fingering," are the great requisites in forming
perfect leaves and flowers of hair."
"Take nature for your guide,
and with hair of various colors and lengths, you will be able to form almost any
flower you desire."
What a historically educational and delightful art
instructional piece this is!
Contents: Section
I
Brooches, Lockets, etc.
Tools Necessary
The Single Plait
Tasteful Designs
Cross and Wreath
Hair Cross
Hair Wreath
Design for Shield
Crown and Hearts
Star
Flowers
Cluster of Convolvulus
Prince's Feather
Group Carnations
Pansies
Butterfly
Ribbon
Forget-me-not
Bell-shaped Flowers
Lily-of-the-valley
Buds of Roses
Roses
Leaves and Tendrils
Double Marguerite
Form of Leaf
Fuchsia
Clover Leaves
Asters
Orange Flowers
Stylized Flower
Oxalis Blooms
Feather Design
Dove Design
Contents: Section II
Contains very detailed observations on the mutitude
of routes the booming Victorian human hair trade obtained its hair goods. Some
rather practical, some downright morbid! An absolutely fascinating
read...
"A courious and
amusing, and the same time highly suggestive article...The consequence is that
the trade in human hair has of late assumed very large proportions, and its
value has increased at a prodigious rate. Where does it all come from? a
spectator naturally asks, as he surveys the harvest of locks hanging in the
windows of the fashionable hairdressers...
...One hundred tons
weight of this precious ornament is...annually taken [to Paris], whence it is
distributed in a raw and manufactured state over the whole of
Europe...
...If we could watch in
seccret the rape of each lock, we should be able to give a series of pictures of
human agony such as life but rarely presents, for we may be sure that, as a
rule, a young woman would almost as soon lose her live as that glorious
appendage, on which so much of her beauty depends."
Contents:
Section III
How to Effectively and
Aritistically Mix Hair of Different Colors and Thickness
Ring Pattern
Pretty & Uncommon
Chain Pattern
Bracelet
Pattern
Ear-ring
Pattern
General How To Instructions for Making
Your Own Hair Braiding Table
Instructions for "A
Very Pretty Purse"
Nets for Hair (Made of
hair!)
The ladies of earlier times put their hands to such
marvelous work and now you can too! These are beautiful items and sure to
delight you and yours! The instructions are based within the perimeters of the
Victorian grammatical and socialization culture. For those who have some
experience with that era's verbal and text style the instructions should be
clear and easy to follow. The experience hair worker will be capable of altering
as per individual needs and artistic whim.
The CD Republication™
you will receive is representative of the types of fancywork expertise of
earlier feminine American culture! If you're into nostalgia like I am you will
have many hours of enjoyment making & recreating the antique Hairwork
jewelry items for yourself or others dear to your heart just the way your
great-great-grandmothers did!
You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come. This information has been scanned into a CD-ROM Reproduction™ using the Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF format. You may download a FREE version of the Adobe software program at www.adobe.com . This is NOT a copy of another CD-ROM. You will receive an ORIGINAL CD of this historic and resourceful and rare information. The text is viewed easily from your computer or you may choose to print each page as you read this amazing book on embroidery. Every page has been meticulously scanned, cleaned and burned to preserve this ANTIQUE book's information and patterns to CD-ROM! The format of this resource has so many more advantages than the original book. What are the benefits
of Dakota Prairie Treasures' Antique Book CD Republications™? * Every image and every page has been scanned to produce crystal clear images and you never have to deal with any crumbling old paper! * These scans are completely sizable. You can enlarge and print according to your visual needs! * Each page is saved in PDF format at a high dsi and is readily accessible using Adobe Acrobat (or other pdf reading software programs). This program is very user friendly and allows you to print any one specific page or the entire book! * Each time you want to use an image, a page or pages you can print it out. Every one will be as crisp and clear as the last! * If you spill your coffee, tea or soda on a page you just print yourself another! * You can put all of your notes or musings on your printouts and save them in a folder for future referencing! *Each CD-ROM comes in a protective case! Curious about the quality of these scans? Please contact me and I will forward an image for your own personal inspection! Scale it, edit it, print it to fit your needs and you are surely going to be quite pleased with the results! You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come... Check out Dakota Prairie
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