theoddmentemporium:Appealing to the tendency among Victorian women to incorporate the importance of
theoddmentemporium:Appealing to the tendency among Victorian women to incorporate the importance of friends and family into their work, hair served as a tangible remembrance of someone. Often, close companions exchanged hair as tokens of friendship. Hair was also sometimes taken after a person’s death as a means of honor and remembrance. -Helen Louise Allen Textile Museum [Source] -- source link