Very Intricately Woven (and Very Wearable) Victorian Hair Cuff antique school alphabet 17th-19th c

17th-19th c

just a little more at either end

All are rendered in vivid color with wonderful detail

and this is really a nice example

Very Intricately Woven (and Very Wearable) Victorian Hair Cuff antique school alphabet 17th-19th cOne sees Victorian hair bracelets around these parts, which I find quite wonderful, but it takes an unusual one from me to feel compelled to bring it home this one sold me in one second flat. I am not an expert, but I believe style of knotting and weaving here is Scandanavian in origin. And that's what I find amazing here that wide, net like matrix of interlaced tiny braids, and then strip down the center like a chain formed of many overlapping loops,