historical hair care

[TatsuOni]

I saw someone mention old combs being fine toothed. I went to a museum in Sweden last year and took pictures of every comb But I realize that I never shared the pictures on LHC. I'll tell the time period on the ones I still remember.


Viking age.


Viking age.


Viking age.


Viking age.


Down in the right corner is a comb. Bronze age I think.


Stone age bone comb. The oldest comb found in Sweden around 3000 years BC.


Not sure from when these are.


Not sure about this one either.


Medieval.

Many of them were quite fine toothed but of various degrees. A lot of the older ones are made from bone. I figure it was easier to just "saw" into them in lines with a stone, saw, knife or what they used during that time. There may have been combs made from wood too, but as they won't have survived, we'll never know what kind of teeth they had.

[Shorty89]

Oooh, those are super cool!

[Sarahlabyrinth]

You can buy replica bone Viking combs online if anyone wants one, too.

[TatsuOni]

You can buy replica bone Viking combs online if anyone wants one, too.

Yes, but be wary of the quality. Not all of them are hair friendly.

[LittleQuill]

Thanks so much, Tatsu for sharing the photos. What a fascinating look! I've only ever seen photos of these types of things on news posts about newly unearthed things from digs and such. To know they're sitting in an actual museum for regular people to plant their eyes on is pretty boggling to me. A lot of them are so intricately made, too. This is probably one of the coolest posts I've ever seen. Wow. Is there more?

[TatsuOni]

Thanks so much, Tatsu for sharing the photos. What a fascinating look! I've only ever seen photos of these types of things on news posts about newly unearthed things from digs and such. To know they're sitting in an actual museum for regular people to plant their eyes on is pretty boggling to me. A lot of them are so intricately made, too. This is probably one of the coolest posts I've ever seen. Wow. Is there more?

More combs? Unfortunately not. Those were all of the combs from the museum. But I have photos of other objects from there. One of hair, that seemed to be part of some type or burial ritual.