She started going through Roman manuscripts with Google Translate after failing to replicate the complex styles and discovered bone needles were used to weave hairstyles the way fabric is woven. Latin scholars had translated the same texts for years without recognizing the hairstyling tools because they had no hands-on knowledge of how the techniques worked.
I suspect this is way more common than we realize. Not enough regular people have seen their theory. Book smart and life stupid was the term frequently used.
I watched the video. Yes this style could be done that way, but it’s not quite believable that a woman would want her hair sewn together this way to create the style. The same coiled braid on the back of the head could be created in the modern world using hairpins. Of the old style. My grandmother did something similar without having the hair sewn together. It would be difficult to quickly undo this sewn hair, and most women would have fly always and loose bit coming out that need to have pins to pull them back in. Especially after sleeping on this hairdo. This hair archeologist is theorizing, demonstrating one way to do it. Tedious. I can’t believe these women had no U shaped hairpins in the ancient world.
She started going through Roman manuscripts with Google Translate after failing to replicate the complex styles and discovered bone needles were used to weave hairstyles the way fabric is woven. Latin scholars had translated the same texts for years without recognizing the hairstyling tools because they had no hands-on knowledge of how the techniques worked.
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I suspect this is way more common than we realize. Not enough regular people have seen their theory. Book smart and life stupid was the term frequently used.
That's pretty cool. But it's also an item that calls out for pics. So here's the results of a search helped by Grok.
An article from 2012 interviewing her: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/14729
And a YT video on her channel showing how she does it: https://youtu.be/68LEUXw2QJU. She apparently does her own ancient Roman music, too.
I watched the video. Yes this style could be done that way, but it’s not quite believable that a woman would want her hair sewn together this way to create the style. The same coiled braid on the back of the head could be created in the modern world using hairpins. Of the old style. My grandmother did something similar without having the hair sewn together. It would be difficult to quickly undo this sewn hair, and most women would have fly always and loose bit coming out that need to have pins to pull them back in. Especially after sleeping on this hairdo. This hair archeologist is theorizing, demonstrating one way to do it. Tedious. I can’t believe these women had no U shaped hairpins in the ancient world.