Through the volunteer group Caring Hands for Angels, about 15 women transform old wedding gowns into burial garments for babies. A collection of mothers, former nurses, seamstresses and social ...

Hinds was a NICU nurse for 31 years before retiring. She recalled searching for proper burial garments when little ones died. She and her colleagues hated to have to send families shopping at such ...

So when her adviser gave her the email addresses of universities with scholars who study textiles, she followed through, eventually hearing back from a professor at the University of Oulu in Finland ...

But it was, the knight claimed, an ancient burial shroud imprinted with the ... badly damaging the garment. The object had been stored in a container that was adorned with silver, which melted ...

“Specific to Polish vampires is that they are known for eating their own flesh and burial garments when they rise from the dead,” says Titus Hjelm, who convenes a course on vampires for the ...

Inspired by her grandfather’s funeral, Pia Interlandi creates garments designed specifically for the grave. Fashion is an act of self-expression, a reflection of life. But the dead have no fashion.

"so I invented the FETAL BURIAL GARMENTS. My protective design would prevent dampness or staining to the outer garment layer." The patent-pending invention provides an improved garment or unionall ...

as funerary art from this time period shows deceased people wearing similar garments. But it wasn't made solely for a funeral — the Tarkhan Dress has evidence of wear, suggesting an elite person ...