Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names and Notes #1, 1866 To Adorn and To Carry then our girl Lila Wise's

then our girl Lila Wise's mind happily

initiative

so perhaps he made dear pets of them

but I prefer these--preparatory I assume

Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names and Notes #1, 1866 To Adorn and To Carry then our girl Lila Wise'sThis 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