Hi All,
This thread made me smile! I have a jeweller friend in Colchester, and I
very often go in just to gossip, and find out what lovely things he has in
the shop! One day I went in, and was admiring a beautiful mourning ring,
with the obligatory plaited hair of the deceased in it. I love these
things, and he knows it, so we were mulling over the possibilities
(admittedly somewhat slim!) of my owning it when a customer came in. She
looked at it, and heard me enthusing, and was also very taken with the
ring - until she was told that the silk plaits were in fact *not* silk but
hair, and that it wasn't a 'Morning' ring, but a 'Mourning' ring, and the
hair was in fact the hair of the dead person. Exit a very upset American
lady, muttering distractedly as she went that the British do have some very
weird habits, to put dead people's hair in jewellery!
We do still laugh about it, and no - I didn't manage to scrape up the
wherewithal to give the ring a new owner ...
Carol - in Suffolk UK
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Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Hair bobbin lace
At that point in time, hair jewelry "morphed" into mourning jewelry.
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