KINSTON — Step back in time with the CSS Neuse Museum to explore the captivating customs of Victorian-era mourning with the program “Mourning Etiquette, Rituals, and Jewelry in the Victorian ...

Lab-grown diamonds made with cremation ashes are just one way people are honoring their loved ones. By Abigail R. Esman When Alyx Carson’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she ...

By Victoria Gomelsky Cece Fein-Hughes, a jewelry designer in London ... The gold locket was a mourning jewel from the Victorian era that belonged to Ms. Fein-Hughes’s maternal great-grandmother ...

But long before their reign, a far less dazzling gem captured the hearts of jewelry ... with mourning dress ever since.) “Anyone who was anyone was wanting to wear jet in the Victorian era ...