Did you know that dollmakers in the Victorian age, sometimes used hair that was taken from dead children ?

And now we just waste all that hair. Such a shame.

Yes or donated hair. There was no means to make synthetic hair at that time:)

Did you know that some still do?

How macabre! I wonder if they used their teeth too.

no, but it wouldn't surprise me

they kept the dead with them for a long time

and hardly ever bathed

No but I do now

Portraits of dead family members were popular so I'm not really surprised

A few years ago I was cleaning out a relatives home and in the attic found preserved hair from dead Victorian relatives. Wrapped in butcher block style paper. Also death photos.

Is there much difference between adult hair and "kid" hair. It was pretty coarse if I remember those dolls

That is creepy.
Perhaps that is how all the legends of possessed dolls got started?

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