Oooh, those are super cool!
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.
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Oooh, those are super cool!
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You can buy replica bone Viking combs online if anyone wants one, too.
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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?
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Wow, that is so cool TatsuOni! Thanks for sharing, I really need to visit that museum some day (not just because of the combs, lol)
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Small update, my hair keeps looking so much nicer because of all the combing and brushing that I have been doing. But it is time consuming! Like omg, washing combs and brushes and combing every day is just too much. Not worth it, but I have noticed that I get nice results even if I am more lazy about it. I do a thorough combing every third day.
I did not manage to stretch my washes to 1x/week, but I have managed to stretch my washes from every 3-4 days to every 4-5 days. Especially if my hair looks a little dirty on day 4, if I comb and brush thoroughly my hair looks soft and shiny instead of oily the next day. If I go more days than that I might get trouble with my scalp getting itchy and flaky.
I have noticed that my hair is so much less frizzy than it used too, or more like, there is no frizz! I still wash my hair with rye flour, but not religiously. If I get build-up (from whatever it is) I use a sulfate free shampoo and light conditioner. Perhaps I need to use it every second month or so.
Also I got two new combs! Now all my tools are from natural material and static free. I will post some pics soon.
Lets see how long this little lump can get. Viva la natural!Lady Nemetona, Adept of the Henna Flame in the Order of the Long Haired Knights
Tha museum is "Historiska Museet" https://historiska.se/
I don't comb or brush my hair properly every day. I don't even comb or brush it at all some days. I do a proper comb through every few days or so and wash my tools maybe once a week. More often if I've just dyed my hair. That is enough for me. I wash my hair once a month or so.
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You and me have that also in common then, Tatsu.
I don't comb/brush my hair every day either.
Whenever I can't be bothered I just put it up in a bun.
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