Victorian Hair Craft and Mementos

The Victorians were also extremely sentimental and family oriented. Many families were large and wanted special tokens of their loved ones. Hair art and other "body" mementos like plaster casts of hands and death masks went well with the Victorian style of decorating. We don't know exactly when the McClelland family started making these designs but it includes Dr Nicholas Miles McClelland, his wife Anna and their ten children. A close guess is 1855. It then was added to and passed on finally being completely assembled and framed around 1912...