Homemade paper (pulp made from soldiers’ letters sent home and wife/sweetheart letters sent to soldiers from various wars, cotton); thread and fabric from soldiers’ uniforms of various wars; WWII-era pigeon message capsules; dried flowers from various battlefields; hair flowers braided by war widows; excavated shrapnel and bullet lead from various battlefields; carrier pigeon skeletons, mourning dress fabric, cut paper, seeds, seashells, cartes de visite, gold leaf, silk, ribbon, wood, glass, foam core, and glue.