Hair work is often closely associated with memento mori, and during the second half of the 19th century, there was an increase in using hair as a token of remembrance as well. Evi Numen/Courtesy the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mütter Museum 2017 “One is for mourning, and then one is for family trees, or friendship keepsakes, so there’s different imagery you’ll see in those things.” A monogrammed brooch made of gold and human hair using table work, late 19th century. “There’s different kinds of hair art and there are different purposes,” she says. Snedden Yates is co-curator of the upcoming exhibition Woven Strands: The Art of Human Hair Work, which will showcase five different private collections of hair art. “Sentimentality was at its height,” explains Emily Snedden Yates, Special Projects Manager at the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Human hair work was around long before Campbell’s manual, but it reached peak popularity in the 19th century. That long title is just the tip of the iceberg: After pages and pages of instructions and illustrations, he writes, “there is much more to be said on this subject …” Yet this volume does, in fact, capture, the assiduous level of detail required for creating decorative items or jewelry from human hair. In 1867, a man named Mark Campbell published a 276-page book called Self-Instruction in the Art of Hair Work, Dressing Hair, Making Curls, Switches, Braids and Hair Jewelry of Every Description.

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