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Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.

Knot in hair

AIDS : guidelines for hairdressers and barbers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.

Hair brain sculpture

Children playing at being adults; a boy sits at his dressing table having his hair dressed by a boy pretending to be a hair-dresser; another boy in the background folds clothes. Coloured lithograph by C. Bargue after H. de Montaut.

Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

Human hair (Asian origin)

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Hair brain sculpture

Hair brain sculpture

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

Human hair (Asian origin)

Hair brain sculpture