And while Victorian hair art was “explicitly white,” “African American and African diasporic use of hair as art has always been a statement” related to black experience.

In response to overwhelming community interest in her acclaimed “Community Unity Wreath” project, local artist Susan Doran ...

“I have a Victorian hair keeper that a very good friend gave me as a gift. It’s a little drum-shaped box, maybe five inches in diameter, and there’s a tiny hole in the top. After you comb ...

Editor's note: This is story #20 in a Monday through Saturday series on 100 interesting artifacts found at Dover's Woodman Museum, in celebration of its 100th season. Visit our web page devoted to ...

Bring wig fibers, fur or previously cut hair and learn how to create majestic palette designs or wire-constructed wreaths in the styles of the Victorian era. Yo ...

Prior to the invention of photography, Victorian women crafted jewelry and wreaths from the hair of family members and friends for keepsakes, and as a family grew, so did the wreath.

During the Victorian era both men and women wore hair jewelry, which often came in the form of complicated braids fashioned into pins, rings, necklaces, bracelets, watch chains, and more.

Hair, carefully collected in a lidded "hair receiver" bowl found on the bureau of many Victorian women, could be woven into jewelry, accessories or even a work-of-art hair picture like the one shown.

We cut it, clip it and lose it. We tease it, shape it and color it. We often get rid of it without a second thought and then, when it’s gone, we miss it. For centuries, humans have had a kind… ...

Some frightening clay figurines, dinosaur gastroliths and Victorian hair art are just a few of the objects that make up Overland Trail Museum’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” or “Wonder Room.” ...