Interest in Insect Jewelry: Historical Context
Interest in Insect Jewelry: Historical Context

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to look at reasons for the popularity of insect jewellery by looking at the historical context of ages such as the Victorian and Art Nouveau periods. The Victorians ladies are said to have even worn live insects. Live insects were also incorporated into jewellery items. Otherwise, jewellery items depicting insects were also popular. The Victorians used insect jewellery as a symbol of nature, which they felt was being overwhelmed by the Industrial Revolution. Jewellery designer Daniela Villegas in Los Angeles is also very passionate about insect jewellery in our times, in 2023, and she sees this as a parallel reaction to the Victorian against industrialization: in our case, it is a reaction against the digitalized world. Indeed, nowadays we also have an environmental culture, including interest in and caring for it, promoted by European Union policies and ideology.

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