Steampunk Garden Terrarium head band Suspended from antique bronze fishhook

Suspended from antique bronze fishhook ear wires

fish and a variety of vegetables

and a pearl and sequin paillette necklace

The silver fern leaf portion of this crown measures approximately 12" and the ribbon measures 20" on each side

Strange Love & Magic

Steampunk Garden Terrarium head band Suspended from antique bronze fishhookThe "Wardian Case" is the perfect blend of Victorian era science and whimsy. It was invented in the early 19th century when Dr. Nathaniel Ward, a British physician with a passion for natural history, noticed that some ferns that failed to grow in his London garden were sprouting quite happily in some sealed jars of soil samples collected from the countryside. Theorizing that perhaps London's notoriously polluted air might be killing the delicate ferns