Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names and Notes #1, 1866 To Adorn and To Carry with some small chips and

with some small chips and a few minor hairline cracks but structurally very sound and still super looking

but I prefer these--preparatory I assume

making it feel something of a metaphor

initiative

then our girl Lila Wise's mind happily

Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names and Notes #1, 1866 To Adorn and To Carry with some small chips andThis 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