Join the Swannanoa Valley Museum a 1-hour Zoom presentation with Gina Iacovelli of Mementos Entwined, on the 19th century techniques used to create sentimental and mourning jewelry with human hair, and the sincerity it represented in a modernizing world. Ms. Iacovelli will also describe mourning jewelry artifacts provided by several local historic sites, including the Swannanoa Valley Museum. 

About the Presenter

Gina Iacovelli is the South Carolina-based artist behind Mementos Entwined; a bespoke jewelry line with a focus on honoring the depth of love, through the acknowledgment of the brevity of life.

Inspired by the sentimental and mourning jewelry of the 18th & 19th centuries, lacovelli began studying the nearly-lost art of table braiding human hair into jewelry, experimenting with instructions from mid-19th century lady’s journals. Her designs are meant to reintroduce tangible keepsakes into a digitalized world, and to preserve a physical piece of a life and the memories we hold dear. http://www.the8thhousecollection.com/mementos_entwined

Photo by A Spot in Time Photography