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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 5492151, member: 2844&quot;]Gorgeous, JP.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Not a mourning bracelet, but a very fashionable bracelet at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hair in woven jewellery was rarely that of a loved one, it was often human hair sold by poor women to supplement their income.</p><p>And quite a lot of these &#039;human hair&#039; bracelets were made from horse hair. I know there was a substantial jewellery horse hair weaving cottage industry in Germany, probably other places as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>As kyra said, the elasticity comes from the weaving technique, or, as in the watch chain Debora posted, braiding technique.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is only recently that all hair jewellery is thought to be mourning jewellery. Sellers.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Around the same time as commercially made woven and braided hair jewellery, hair of loved ones was usually kept in lockets or simply behind glass. Either as a lock of hair, a woven panel, or hair art. Hair art is a delicate picture made from hair, like a weeping willow and an urn.</p><p>As far as I know, hair art was made for mourning only, but woven hair panels and locks of hair were also kept for non-mourning sentimental reasons. A lock of hair of your child close to your heart, for instance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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