How to Make Victorian Hair Jewelry
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Learn how to make your very own piece of Victorian hair jewelry! In this tutorial I will show you how to make a jewelry piece in a woven style. Below is the full list of materials you will need for this project:
Wax Paper
Masking Tape
Elmer’s Glue
Super Glue (optional)
Scissors
Locket or jewelry piece
Paint and brushes or printer
Stiff paper or cardstock
3-6” of hair
I bought my locket here (comes in gold or silver tone): www.joann.com/hildie-jo-my-li...
This tutorial is based on the directions for a 'basket plait' design as seen on page 136 of 'The Lock of Hair' from 1871 and can be read online here: archive.org/details/TheLockOf...
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Video editing by Tom Tracey
Music Credits:
No. 9 Esther's Waltz by Esther Abrami
No. 7 Alone With My Thoughts by Esther Abrami
00:00 Intro
00:43 Supplies List
02:33 Preparing the Hair
05:30 Prepping the Reverse Mourning Painting
10:24 Trimming the Hair
11:42 Weaving the Hair
15:35 Prepping the Weave
17:15 Cutting the Weave to Size
18:20 Prepping to Place in Jewelry
22:00 Placing into the Jewelry
23:15 The Finished Piece!
I just lost my beloved, 15 1/2 year-old Maltese, her name was Mandy. I saved hair from her ponytail and plan on doing this in an antique Victorian mourning locket I just purchased. I was lucky enough to find one with two sections, one for her picture and one to do the Victorian hair art work. The front of the locket is just beautiful and done with black enamel over gold.
Your tutorial has made it possible to make and have this keepsake with me for the rest of my life. Thank you so much for making this, God bless!
This is a really good tutorial. Great for mourning jewelry. I was thinking how to preserve my mother, mine, and now my daughters hair for a keepsake. This is a great way. I know African Americans would quilt or crochet a blanket and weave some of their cut hair into it so if the family was ever separated by death or by being sold, they would still have a piece of their loved one with them. Those blankets were treasured and sacred and hung up- not normally used. Thanks again!
Wow, that's a really incredible bit of history! I didn't know about that, I'd love to learn more about it.
incredible, g-d bless you for sharing this information
Today, hair is used to make seaworthy objects in some countries.
This is so helpful, thank you my mother passed and I have some of her hair. I’m going to try and do this myself bc I couldn’t find anyone who makes this. 💕 thank again
I'm glad you found it helpful!
My horse recently passed away and I kept his mane and tail and I have been making keepsakes from it so I can keep him with me and this was a wonderful tutorial thank you so much
I could cover buttons with this technique too! And attach to hair grips. This is brilliant!
Great idea!
You mean leave the hair exposed to the weather? Hmmm, not sure about that.
Lovely! I have converted an oval brooch into a hair slide that I wanted to fill with a nice complicated little weave of my own hair. I have been hesitating about how to do the weave, and now I know. Thank you very much!
I'm so glad this was helpful!
Great video! I'll be making my kids memorial charms for when I'm gone... Love this!
I will be making this with my moms hair. Thanks for the tutorial
That sounds really lovely, I'm glad you found this helpful!
I loved seeing the hair jewelry at the V&A. It's so cool to see how it's actually made!
Antique hair work is truly a work of art that is so fascinating! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
This is awesome! My mother in law just lost one of her beloved dogs and I'm going to make her a resin pyramid memorial , but the hair is long and furry and I didn't want to just put the hair in the resin willy billy and I was looking for a way to get his hair in the pyramid with a sense of cohesion and this is perfect..m
I'm so glad you found this helpful ☺
I'm gonna stiffen fabric then seal it with this stuff I use for paper beads. I'm gonna have to use a color that matches my blonde hair. I don't want to see the backing thru it if it's not perfectly tightly woven. Gold silk would be cool. Maybe some decoration on the fabric. I guess I could do a picture of myself. I sepia or something
I always wondered how to do that! Very clear tutorial. Thank you very much!
I'm glad you found it helpful!
That’s so interesting! I still have some hair from my best friend from when I cut her hair. Maybe I’m gonna be able to do something with it
That sounds like a lovely idea! Hairwork keepsakes from friends were immensely popular. Good luck!
Thanks for this tutorial! I'm really interested in making these, so this video helps a lot.
Thank you so much. You made this very simple. I have a nice lock of hair from over 30 years ago. I am going to make a memory box for my daughter. This will be perfect for the top!
Absolutely perfect, thank you for sharing your skills! 🖤
I did something similar with my mother's hair when she passed ... I made several glass lockets with the hair and a tiny poem printed on the back - - very nice keepsake - - I really enjoyed your weaving
I'm glad you enjoyed watching! The pieces you made sound really lovely and meaningful.
Perfect, thank you! I was trying to make one using guess work but gave in after 3 failed attempts and came here. I was overjoyed to see we bought the same locket!
Good luck, I hope it goes well!
This came out so lovely !
Thank you!
Great tutorial!! Thank you sooo much for doing this video!
I have always wanted to do this to my daughter's hair! Thank you for this video
I'm so glad you found this helpful!
Good video, not annoying. Love the end 😍
How very interesting! You are a great teacher. Your presentation is spot on! Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
I have a good friend who is moving away so I am going to make one of these for her. I'm not dying but it may be years before we meet again. Thanks for the tutorial!
Beautifully done! I've considered making one but putting the hair in clear resin.
Thanks! I'm glad you found it interesting!
new subscriber. Interested in more victorian crafts 🌼
Thanks so much for the tutorial!!
Beautiful! Great tutorial!! Thank you.
You are so welcome!
This is perfect tutorial!
I'm glad you found it helpful!
When I first learned about mourning jewelry I was kind of grossed out. Now after my mother has died, I'm looking up tutorials.
Considering the views and comments here, you've helped a lot of people with their grief! 🤍
Thank you! I think mourning jewelry is fascinating, and it's also really interesting to see reactions to it now - a lot of people's first reaction is "eww!" but after learning more some people come around. I think it's really lovely to be able to keep a little physical reminder of someone with you.
Great idea. Glad I watched this video. Thank you
I'm glad you enjoyed!
If you used brown paper to glue to the hair then put the white painting on the back of that, it might help. I am going to try this. Thank you so very much for the excellent and instructions.
I appreciate this tutorial! I just finished making some cuff links for my father for Christmas, he’s gonna think they are so cool.
How cool!
Id love to see a photo of those! I bet they're so cute and held to his heart dearly.
Now that was awesome. I always wondered how the victorians did it.
I'm glad you enjoyed!
Beautiful thank you for sharing.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed!
is the music erik satie? very relaxing and soothing and of course more importantly- a very informative and cool video thank you so much! Truly appreciated
I'm glad you found it enjoyable and helpful!
Thank you.
I love this thank you
I'm so glad!
finalmente encontreeeei!!!!!!!
Thank you SO much! 🍀🍀🍀
You're so welcome!
I just bought two Victorian memorial rings from 1800s. How do i keep the hair from getting fragile without ruining the ring
Wonderful tutorial. Do you know if this was a method used by real Victorian's?
I've modernized a few steps a smidge where acquiring actual Victorian supplies would be difficult for the average person (mainly, using Elmer's glue and wax paper in place of gold beater's skin and gum) but otherwise, most of the process is quite the same. I used a 1871 hairwork manual ('The Lock of Hair') as the basis for this tutorial; and the general method of weaving hair into a pattern, adhering it together and cutting it into shapes is pretty much exactly what they were doing!
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I love this bug my pieces don’t stay in the tape snd they’re sliding all over when I try to weave
How long are your strips? Do you have enough length to tape over more of the hair to help it stick better?
I figured it out. Just takes me time. You make it look so easy but you’re so patient and thank you for this awesome tutorial. You’ve got me wanting to weave all kinds of things!!! The hair is something Ive wanted to do for a long time. Thank you!
Could you practice this with wig hair/fake hair?
I don't see why not!
Just curious how they would have made them in the victorian era without glue?
They would have used some kind of gum or glue for adhesive, just not our modern elmers!
I wonder what they used for glue
My instructional book from the period simply says to use gum or glue, but doesn't specify what kind. I do wonder!
I believe I read gum arabic
Would you mind sharing a scanned copy of this book?
I read not to use Elmer's glue. Use E6000 glue.
Did it say why not to use Elmer's glue?
@@tabu0386 I think because the E6000 is clear and would dry clear.
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your painting is amazing!
Thank you!
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