Mourning necklace

                                                                                               

source

 

Mourning necklace containing a finger

bone from the deceased. 

                                                                          

OSSUARY

Coat of Arms................

 

Coat of Arms of

Schwatzenberg Family

in Sedlec Ossuary in

Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

 

Mourning Tributes...........

 

Hair saved  in a wonderful hand sewn pocket,

along with a newspaper clipping....

an obituary?

 

 

I thought these wire wreaths were amazing....

Corey Amaro shared these on her blog

Tongue In Cheek

 

MOURNING HAT

Lovely Beaver Top Hat.............
                    

 

With mourning ribbon on band

 

 

 

 

 

Mourning ribbon/Hair

 

                                                                            

GRAVE RUBBINGS.......

AND CRAZY QUILTS................

Who else could come up with that besides the amazing Susan Lenz?????

As usual I find Susans' art  completely captivating......especially her grave rubbings on silk.
When I saw these two pieces where she combined her rubbings with crazy quilts I knew they were my favorites . (so far :)

 

"The Urn"

 

 

 

 

" Circular Churchyard Angel III"

 

 

You can read more about these pieces and see more of Susans'

rubbings at her blog,

"Grave Rubbing Quilt Series."

You'll find it located on my sidebar.

 

                                                                 

MOURNING QUILT........

GRAVEYARD:

 

After finding this quilt online I decided it definitely

fit into the catagory of mourning art.

It's "title" is Graveyard, it's maker unknown.

 Made sometime between the years of 1950 to 1975, 

 it could be classified as an eight pointed star pattern.

Done in shades of brown, beige, and black,

 it is surrounded by a border that is done to look like a picket fence,

with coffins along the inside. 

 

 

 

The large center piece is a cemetery with coffins.

There is a path thru the pattern that leads into the cemetery.

I can't tell what the first item is at the head of the path, I am guessing it is

possibly an urn?

I counted over 20 coffins , at least some of them have names on them.

Again, these photos make it hard to tell for sure.

It also looks like it was made in such a way

that more coffins could be added at a later date. 

 

 

this quilt is in a private collection

in the USA.

 

 

 

Edited to add another much clearer photo I just came across

of this wonderful quilt: