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A touch of history: hair jewelry! Advice on how to make a

Did you know that in the seventeenth century were achieved jewelry containing hair? They were collected and placed in gold medallions or rock crystal sometimes fabrics woven to form bracelets, necklaces and earrings. They were real sentimental jewelry for both women and men, and donated as a token of love. This custom continued even throughout the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century the demand for jewelry with hair increases. The skilled artisans in the art realize complex compositions and take care of mounting base metal into gold or imitation gold with enamelled parts. When it comes to necklaces, brooches and centers of the closure and finish with gold decorations and metal and stone. Even in Victorian times this type of production increases with jewelry containing hair, made accessible to a wider audience. The artisans gradually abandon the production of ornaments to order and begin to create models are very similar. Queen Victoria, for example, inherited his passion for these gems from the uncle George IV who left a rich collection of ornaments made of women's hair. On the occasion of the betrothal is used to give a token of love or that it was a locket with hair of the future spouse or other jewelry always locks. Thanks to this request this kind of ornaments will be most successful in France in 1840-50. This production will end in 1930.
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