'With her own hair': A Victorian prisoner's art

[Caiero]

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/miscellanies/her-own-hair-victorian-prisoners-art

[schiffern]

Related: "hair wreaths" were a surprisingly common pass-time for women in the Victorian age.

https://saukcountyhistory.org/the-hair-wreath

https://mainestatemuseum.org/hair-wreaths/

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/the-art-of-victorian-hair-w...

[Tagbert → schiffern]

Taking a tour of the Gatsby Mansion in Victoria, BC, we saw dozens of examples of hair wreaths and similar constructions of human hair. Interesting but slightly creepy.

[throwup238 → Tagbert]

> Interesting but slightly creepy.

Wait until you learn about anthropodermic bibliopegy [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropodermic_bibliopegy

[lilboiluvr69]

Two years hard labor for attempted suicide? What were these people thinking...?