Tag: horse hair jewelry

The Best Horses in Heaven, They Have No Tail (or are missing some)

September 20, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.
The Best Horses in Heaven

I came across this lovely poem on Facebook. The author is Miska Carlberg Paget, a large animal veterinarian in Prescott, Arizona.   Saving a bit of your horse’s tail after they die to make into a bracelet or a necklace or a fly whisk, is how many people choose to remember the partners they loved. […]

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Remembering your Horse with Horse Hair Jewelry

October 4, 2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

Since Victorian times, people have woven hair into jewelry as a way to remember their loved ones — horse hair jewelry was used as tokens of affection and as a way to remember those who passed away, although that was not it’s primary purpose From the 1600s until the late 1800s horse hair jewelry was […]

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