Abstract

FERREIRA PIRES, Beatriz. Adornos confeccionados con cabellos humanos. De la Era Victoriana y de Nuevos Diseñadores. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2020, n.82, pp.189-201. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi82.3722.

Openly, the Victorian Era imposed mourning on the society; it established black as the official color of mourning clothing, and it introduced to the market the production of ornaments, both residential and for personal use, made of human hair. Such ornaments, made of an organic raw material taken from the body of a dear relative, assured that this one would not be forgotten. Nowadays, this same material is been used by some contemporary jewelry designers.

The possibility to use human raw material to make these ornaments, takes place through-out the centuries, because of the changes in the perceptions towards death and how is it represented; how the death body is taken care and buried.

Keywords : Hair - Mourning Jewelry; Death; Middle Ages; Victorian Era..

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