Unusual Victorian Hair Mourning Buttons utilitarian sign making them to my eye

making them to my eye and ideal duo

complete with 48 cards

and of course symbolic of heating things up

it makes me thing about who was directed to enter through the front doors and who through the sides and everything embedded in that

Unusual Victorian Hair Mourning Buttons utilitarian sign making them to my eyeI've never seen the likes of these, which I believe are Victorian mourning buttons, made with blonde hair encased in finely wrapped and knotted blue cord and thread, silk I believe. One presumes these were made to be sewn to a garment perhaps like toggles on a shawl or coat but I'm not entirely sure. Whatever the case, quite unusual as far as I know, and feeling like literal capsules of another time (and specific person!), which could easily be strung