"Jewelry is how you show the world what you're thinking without saying a word." This is a popular mantra at Tea & Gemstones. How did Suffragettes -a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest- use jewelry for their cause? We'll learn how jewelry worked to establish their camaraderie, put forth their message (there's no social media in the early 1900s!), counter hateful propaganda, celebrate getting out of jail... and yeah, tell the world what they thought. Please leave a r...
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"Jewelry is how you show the world what you're thinking without saying a word." This is a popular mantra at Tea & Gemstones. How did Suffragettes -a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest- use jewelry for their cause? We'll learn how jewelry worked to establish their camaraderie, put forth their message (there's no social media in the early 1900s!), counter hateful propaganda, celebrate getting out of jail... and yeah, tell the world what they thought. Please leave a r...
It is not a foreign concept to wear a piece of jewelry to imbue you with comfort, strength and connection to a memory. But for about four decades in the late 1800s, the absolute dominant style of jewelry was 'mourning jewelry.' I trace through the origins of ‘memento mori’ (a Latin phrase translating to ‘remember you must die') jewelry- from the Georgian motifs of gravediggers, skulls and coffins, to the soft sadness of the Victorian seed pearls, willows and urns... but in either time p...
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"Jewelry is how you show the world what you're thinking without saying a word." This is a popular mantra at Tea & Gemstones. How did Suffragettes -a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest- use jewelry for their cause? We'll learn how jewelry worked to establish their camaraderie, put forth their message (there's no social media in the early 1900s!), counter hateful propaganda, celebrate getting out of jail... and yeah, tell the world what they thought. Please leave a r...
