I went to today’s open house at the Grand Island Historical Society’s museum in Beaver Island State Park, It started out as a warm and windy day, but, by late afternoon, the rain was coming down pretty hard. Fortunately, almost my entire time at the historical society’s museum, River Lea, was relatively dry.
Victorian mourning clothes was the theme for this month’s open house. During the Victorian period in the nineteenth century, it was mandatory for people who were mourning the loss of a family member to wear mourning clothes for a certain length of time. After Prince Albert passed away in 1861, Queen Victoria dressed in mourning clothes for forty years. She was in mourning for a man that she was passionately in love with. The couple had nine children before Prince Albert (officially the prince consort) passed away. She never remarried.
This is a mourning suit that a man might wear during Victorian times.
Women during Victorian times saved their hair in a small containers, called hair receivers. When they had enough hair, they created hair art. It was a good way to remember a family member who had passed away.
That’s what hair art looks like. It looks like it’s a lot of work, which means that it is priceless.
My next post will be later today. I was planning on posting this last night, but I fell asleep so that was the end of that! See you again soon!
