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

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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...

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.

> Interesting but slightly creepy.

Wait until you learn about anthropodermic bibliopegy [1].

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

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

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