When: Saturday: Free-To-The-Public Talk, 11-11:45AM; Lunch 12-1PM ( Don't forget our Sandwich Shop on the grounds), Hands-on Jewelry Workshop, 1-3:30PM.
Where: 19th Century Willowbrook Village, 70 Elm Street, Newfield, Maine
Contact/ Registration: Phone: 207-793-2784; Email: director@willowbrookmuseum.org
The talk will include an overview of Victorian jewelry from 11-11:45; this will be free to the public. The workshop is from 1-3:30PM. Biddeford Pool artist Ann Thompson will define the Romantic: 1837-1860, the Grand: 1860-1885, and the Aesthetic: 1885-1910 periods of American jewelry making. There will be a slide show of representative pieces.
Ms Thompson will facilitate the creation of romantic pieces of jewelry that reflect the prevalent styles of the period. Traditional fabrication will be used as well as metal casting techniques that have remained the same over time. Students will also have a chance to explore "jet" (black) , which was a common material used in mourning jewelry.
Students will have an opportunity to create faux hair jewelry using a hairlike nylon. Hair jewelry examples from the museum's collection will be a starting point.
Those taking the workshop should, if they can, bring antique buttons or meaningful found objects to "cold connect" into jewelry with rivets, tabs, and staples. Students will have the opportunity to cast iconicsymbols in pewter and attach things to them.
Tuition: Willowbrook members: $80.00, Non-Members: $100.00
For Sale at the Willowbrook Village's Country Store is this reproduction Repousse Hair Receiver.
There are two original examples in the collection of the museum. "The origins of this odd dish are fascinating. Refined Victorian Women would brush 100 strokes before braiding at bedtime. The strands were removed from the brush and poked into the hole. Later the hair would be woven into intricate weavings of sentimental hair jewelry and floral designs under glass.
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