Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names and Notes #1, 1866 striped uniforms in four colors

in four colors

but this seems to be the mother of them all

I've never seen another like it

an unusual and beautiful thing

sturdy and sound and very tightly stuffed

Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names and Notes #1, 1866 striped uniforms in four colorsThis came from a small collection of hair locks and wreaths I just purchased, all dating to the 1860s and all stitched to or tucked into bits of paper annotated with names and notes. I considered listing them as a collection, but realized much of what I find beautiful about these is their specificity and singularity in form and content (color, composition, etc.) and so am more inclined to treat them as individual drawings of sorts, and to hold them up