(slow music) - Hello, and good morning everyone. My beautiful, beautiful internet friends. How are you? How are you guys doing? I'm Morgan Donner, and I might be getting a little bit weird. I've taken to spending my
time browsing academia.edu, which is a really cool website for people to post their research papers and studies, and share it with others
in their field and weirdos creeping on them like me. You can find so many really
cool things, but lately, it's graves. Graves are the coolest thing, because you can find hopefully,
undisturbed versions of what this person was wearing
when they were laid to rest. In particular, I've been
looking at the Hallstatt graves. And there is this fantastic
paper published about the hairpins that were
found near the skeletons of various folks. Hallstatt is in Austria and
the pins and gravesites that, in particular I'm referring to for today are from about 800 to 350 BCE, which is a little bit
earlier than my usual, but still, very cool. Using the way these pins were arranged, combined with various pictures
on artifacts of the time showing figures, the
researchers have put together this sort of theoretical,
maybe this is how some of their hairstyles might have been using these tools, using these pins. And it's so cool. I love historical hair stuff. Speaking of which, if you have
not checked out Janet's page here on YouTube, I will link
to that down below somewhere. She has this whole channel
full of really, really cool, historical, like Roman hairstyles. So cool. But back to Hallstatt in Austria. These pins, I needed them. I needed them in my life and
I could not for the life of me find anywhere that sold them. So what I ended up doing was
talking to a manufacturer for custom jewelry pieces and things, and had them manufacturer
some pins for me. These were made to match the
average pin size and shape of the pins found at the Hallstatt graves, approximately 11 to 10
centimeters overall length, with the head, the kind of a
spherical or geometric shape at the top, being about
one centimeter tall and around the diameter of the pin section is about two millimeters. I love these, I'm really excited. They did unfortunately come
with the sort of dark coating from the manufacturer. I'm not sure if that's
meant to protect them. Or if they misinterpreted my request and we're trying to make
them look ye old relic from a gravesite. Doesn't matter. It's easy enough to go ahead and clean off this protective coating
that they've added. And now I have a beautiful
set of brass pins. Would have been nice if they
were a little bit more bronze, but you know, life
happens, it's close enough. The second piece of very
important equipment that I needed to try and recreate
some of these hairstyles was the spiral. Each of the gravesites
that had the the pins around the skull, also
had associated with it this kind of wire, bronze spiral thing. And from what I can tell, it's
usually just one, not two. The researchers for the paper
proposed that it was meant to be a tie off for the end of the hair. We don't exactly know since the
vast majority of these finds did not have any hair left. So you just kind of have to guess. But you know, experimental
archaeology, very fun. So I did not have the manufacturer
make these spirals for me instead, I took some brass and bronze wire that I have on hand, also two millimeters in
diameter to match the pins. So what I did was, take my
wire and try and spiral it to approximately the
dimensions of the original, slightly taper, slightly conical with about one centimeter
in diameter on the outside for the narrow end. And about one and a half
centimeters on the larger end. So I did my gosh darn
bestest to try and replicate that size and shape, and ended up with something
that's close enough. We are back. Hello and welcome to Garage Edition. So the house is full of noises right now. So I am here in the lovely echoey garage, which is excellent. But at least I have a lot of lights, so. I have finished up making
my little spiral doobly doo so that I can get this on my hair somehow. So that's cool. So from what I can tell, this is essentially a
replacement for a rubber band. So let me go ahead and
get my hair braided up really quickly. From what I can tell, the
vast majority of these styles are meant to be done with a single braid rather than a double. Just a simple normal braid, starting from the base of the neck, hair divided into three even sections. And braiding go. Oh, no. If you find yourself like me with three very uneven braid sections, then just go ahead and steal
a piece of another braid. And keep going, it's fine. So once I am down to that
last little bit of hair, not a whole lot left here to work with. I'm going to go ahead and wet
this to help keep it together. Did I bring out water? Apparently I didn't bring water. All right, I'm gonna go
wet this bit of hair. I'll be right back. So that didn't take very long. I would love to try more someday with some flaxseed techniques, or pomade and things. But for now, just water So I'm gonna go ahead and attempt to just kind of plop this on. Stay together. Okay. I guess you just kind of shove it together. All right. I guess that works. Sure, why not? So I now have a little doobly
doo at the end of my hair. If I pulling it really gently, it stays. As a temporary hold it's not bad. Yeah, I am surprised at how
well that is staying in. Again, wouldn't trust it for a whole day just by itself hanging down but, surprisingly not bad. So now I have my bundle of pins. And we're gonna go ahead and
see if we can get these to work as well. I will start with their
kind of their main style. There are a few graves between
eight to 14 pins per style where they're all kind of put
in together towards the center of the back of the head. So presumably, a normal bun. So let's give that a try. I'm gonna start by just
kind of doing a gentle coil and adding the pins after
and seeing how that does. Oh no. Okay, so I currently have
six in and that's not bad. I did use them a lot
like I use normal pins, which is to say, if this is the scalp and then you have kind
of a little bun of hair sticking on top of it, what I'll do is dig into the bun a little bit, and then kind of like
scoop up some scalp hair, and then hide the rest
of the pin into the bun. If I can, if I'm getting really clever and trying to make it
stick as well as possible, I'll dig into the bun,
scoop a bit of scalp hair, and then try and kind of
wiggle it through the hair so that it's kind of
really woven in there. And so that's kind of the
technique I'm aiming for here. I think it works better
with the double pins that we use modernly, but it's not bad. I currently have six. And I guess I'll do two more. I'll do the full eight. The full minimum, I guess of eight. I can see why we moved to two double pins, 'cause it's literally like a pair of pins. Clearly the superior option. Okay, like, but that's not bad. It feels fairly secure as I wiggle about. Not bad, not bad, I mean. Hopefully you guys can see
that fairly clearly here. That works pretty well. Although I just realized that
I don't have a center part which is from what I can tell,
the most common hairstyle up until relatively recently. Folks throughout history
loved a good center part. I don't know if it's because
they like cemetery or what but center parts seem to be
super common all over the place for a very long time. Whereas I've gone for a no part situation. All right, sure, why not? That worked pretty well. All I did was kind of gently
swirl the braid around. I suspect that this would do a lot better if I gave it just a little bit more. Dropped a pin somewhere. If I gave it a little bit more twist, then I suspect that will
hold a little bit nicer. So let's give that a try. The little spiral end
holder doobly doo here, rubber band replacement. It did okay. I could definitely feel it in the back being slightly in the way. I kind of wonder if when
attempting to do the style, you know, if you were attempting
to make this a sort of visually decorative element,
would you then try and maybe either center it somewhere? Maybe try and make it so that this ends up on the
top center back of your head. Or maybe you would try and
make it be very attractively on one side of your bun rather than just a random, awkward angle. That's something worth considering. Where'd my dropped pin go? Here. All right, we are ready
to get back to work. Another thing that they
mentioned in the paper, is that there's this concept
of not really necessarily knowing the context, I
guess of these hairstyles. Are they perhaps funerary only? Like these pins, perhaps
these are traditional pins of some sort that are not
used in everyday hairstyling. Maybe they are meant to be
specifically funerary-associated. That's something that's very
interesting to think about and consider when trying
to replicate styles. You know, when you look at a painting you see a really cool
hairstyle or something. I feel like it's definitely
worth considering what context that original artwork
was meant to be taken in. I've definitely seen some
artworks that are clearly meant to be like allegorical figures or people representing
various biblical figures. And you have a bunch
of people in a painting that are representing this biblical scene that are clearly wearing yield costumes. But it's so easy for us to not
quite fully get that context. That is surprisingly secure. I just did three pins but with more twist as I was coiling the braid. And it's amazing how much
more secure of a base that gives your pins to dig into. Nice. That's not bad, not bad at all. I've come back inside
because I'm fickle, I guess. I just I'm in the mood
for change of scenery. I've also decided to change
into a unfinished medieval dress because why not? How's your summer going Morgan? You know, the usual. All right, so the next style
that I want to play with a bit is not that dissimilar but
instead of all of the pins going inward in kind of a
towards the center style. Instead, they are kind of
crisscrossed over each other at an angle. Screening kind of I like a riff. So I'm gonna go ahead and give that a try. This is often found at a
slightly bigger diameter. So presumably instead of being
a smaller bun type formation, it's more of a bigger
kind of hair braid wreath, not unlike what I often wear. Although because I'm gonna be doing this with just one braid, I'm not gonna be able to braid
across the top of my head. It's gonna be more at the back of my head, but let's give it a try. Braid up first. Getting to near the end of my braid here. It's so bright, could
you calm down please? So I've gotten to the end
and I'm going to again kind of wet the ends here
from kind of mush it together to help create a point. That's really the main
thing that I'm after here in order to help get it inside. The little spiral holder is
to have it all be one piece, like this. In you go. So I guess I'll just go ahead
and arrange it in a wreath behind my head. And try to make sure that
the tip is secured or nestled next to another part of the braid so that I can pin the ends down. And we'll see, let's see how we do. I am trying to use the
same pinning technique where I dig the pin in first to the braid, then scoop up a bit of scalp hair, and then weave the pin as much
as possible back and forth through the braid and the
scalp continuing as I go on. And I can totally get why
you'd want to have this in the sort of wreath pattern because you're trying to
dig the tip of your pin into the rest of the braid
that's around your head. I think I only have like,
maybe five in there. Five or six if I counted right. And it's holding pretty well. It's so bright. I need the sun to just calm down. It's supposed to be a cloudy day today. What is this? I'm a little bit surprised
that the little spiral holder is staying put. I don't think I yet have
enough pins in there to help reassure me that it's
gonna stay there all day. But at least for a few
minutes it's doing okay. Let's toss a few more pins
and it's kind of neat. You can sort of feel where
the heads of the pins are, and feel if there's a big
gap between a pair of them. And just kind of toss
into another pin there. All right, I'll let you
guys have a quick look. See what you think. Oh gosh, golly, it is
too bright over here. Let's move away from the window. All right, this is a bit better, I think. Not nearly as fun with the
plain white background. I think it is surprisingly darn cute. Not bad for modern styling, I would probably soften up this a bit. Maybe do something with
all of these hairs. But you know, that aside,
it's a cute bun hairstyle. All right, what's next? Yes, okay. So this next one is very fun. It's from a find that has a
very different type of spiral. So instead of being even,
nice made beforehand, we have another one with
a different type of wire that is a much rougher
spiral and only a few loops. And their theory is that what they did is braid the hair much like
the previous style here and then loop up the
tip and wrap it around as it's on the hair. Very similar to how we would
use a rubber band today. So it's securing the end of the braid to the base of the braid, and
then you just lift that up and insert the pins in that
same sort of wreath style that we did for the second
hairstyle a second ago. That went surprisingly well. I use a much softer wire for the spiral than I did for the other one. That way I could easily
manipulate it around my hair in real time. Research paper mentions, it has
very uneven curves around it as if it was maybe clamped in
place once it was on the hair. And that worked. Like I don't know that I would
trust that loop situation that I did if left down. But once you've looped
the bottom of your braid back up to the base of your hair, and then pin to the whole thing up. Yeah, this feels pretty dang secure. Let's see how it looks. Not the worst. I think that if I could,
it'd be nice to have a wire that matches the
same color as all the pins. Just because aesthetically
that's very nice. If I remember correctly, I
wanna say the research paper said that that wire on the
original was actually gold. Which makes sense 'cause gold
tends to be pretty happy about bending over and over and over again, which is malleability, I think. Anyways, I will put a
correction here if I'm wrong. It is a little bit
harder though to control whether your little tips
of the braid peek out. I think this works pretty well. What next? The next one is a variant of this, although it comes from ones where the pins instead of being at the back
of the head or below the skull, they are above. So we are going to try a wreath
around the top of the head, which means that we need to
start out with the braid being at the upper back of the crown, rather than at the base of the neck. Let's make that happen really quick here. There we go. Go ahead and toss that on into my spiral. We are spiraled again. I guess I just coil it kind of on top and tuck the ends in
underneath the other side here and now we'll start pinning away. It is definitely trickier to
hold onto the end of the hair and keep the style together
until you've got some pins in. But I suppose that if
your first few pins are mediocrely situated, you
only need to get them pinned well enough that it'll
stay still for a few minutes. At which point you can
then redo all of the pins that are less than optimally placed. This feels very Princess Leia. In with the wispy hairs This is a cute one. Once I took care of my
whispies, it has an almost crown-like effect because
you're literally adding height to your head, and you get little sparkles from the ends of the pins. It's darn cute. I like this one. So I actually might not have
quite placed this high enough on the top of my head. The reason being that one of
theories behind this style is that you do see in
the period depictions of women at the time the
kind of very stylized works that you see on pottery and things, is that they are clearly often carrying baskets on their head,
they would have used the braid to help settle the basket. Give it a good landing pad. And right now I have put the
braid too far back for that, I should have started my braid
just a little bit higher up, and then made the circle
here around on top. Oh well, you get the idea though. I don't know that I would
wear that other style. This one's real cute though. See what happens if I instead
of tucking the thing behind the base of the front braid,
what if I tuck it in front? Yeah, that gets it so that
it's on top of my head rather than a little bit further back. I don't think I'm gonna do
any basket-carrying today. But that's something that might be fun to experiment with later. Next one is actually very fun. Because instead of the single braid, the theory involves double braids. And I love double braids. Center part it up. And now I'm gonna go ahead
and braid starting at the base of the skulls behind
my ears on both sides. And I'll meet with you in a second. We are all braided up with
our two unsecured ends here. And for the next one, the proposed style is that the ends are brought together. The two ends are put into
our little spiral holders. Stay stuck together. Come on guys, work together. And now they are supposed
to go up and over top, and then as much as we can, pinning everything in place here. All right, maybe not as secure as some
of our previous styles. All right, we are pinned in place. This style is meant to
replicate some of the art that depicts women wearing veils
with a little hint of braid peeking out the side. And you know, I have a veil. Let me show you what that looks like. Of course I say that and
then I can't find one. So, you know, cool. That's what happens when
you're not prepping for camping season like you normally would be. But that's okay. A veil is literally just a fun
little rectangle of fabric. So it's easy enough to go cut one out. Now, my pins are not as
sharp as some of the ones that were found on the
original so I don't know. Well, you know, I guess it doesn't matter. It still seems to pierce
the veil just fine. The veil. The fabric I'm tossing
on my head as a veil. The braids do kind of act
nicely as an anchor point for the veil to sit on. You would probably want
maybe a couple more pins to help anchor this in
place to keep everything nice and secure. But that's the look. Again, not a lot of
modern application per se for this particular style, but it's cute, it's fun. I kinda want to experiment with that more. But I think I'm gonna do that off camera. For right now, this is a
hairstyle-focused video and we're gonna go to a new hairstyle. So the next one also uses
double braids, which is nice, I can go ahead and just leave my braids in as they currently are. And this is for one of the
ones that does not have an associated spiral doobly doo. And the braids or rather
the pins, since again, not a lot of hair fiber
left at this point. But the pins are both
focused behind the skull on either side of the head. So the thought is that
it might be even more Princess Leia vibes. Kind of a little side bun situation. It actually might be a good
idea to redo your braids so that the braids start at the start or the middle of the point
that you want to pin around. Because here, the best way
to get a really secure bun is if you can securely twist
around your starting point, which for me would be way back here rather than over the
ears like you sometimes see depicted in the art. Let's try both. I think I've done like three. That feels pretty good. There we go. Side buns, very cute. Feels very high school in
a way that I don't know that I can quite fully articulate. But very cute. So this does have the downside because these are smaller buns rather than the one bigger bun that the ends of each of
the pins does poke out. I'm gonna try this again
and see if I can do the over-the-ears bun. The idea is that if you
see the figures in art that have the veil on, but like a little peeking
out of braid at the side, you wanna put the braid where
it could possibly peek out. So let's give that a try. I guess this was kind of like
the more modern-ish variant. We really wanna try and help
this one out as much as we can. Because part of the problem
with this over-the-ears Princess Leia bun style, is that you can't pin into
like half of the bun base, because there's an ear there. You can't pin through the ear, or at least I highly don't recommend. So I have one over-the-ear braid done. Let's go ahead and just
test out my placement. Try and do our little over-the-ear buns. I'm gonna try and make sure
I'm carefully doing that pin wiggle technique as I
do this to make as much use of what ever hair grabbing
ability I can right now. I talked it up about how
difficult it would be but two pins and that
already feels really secure. Well shoot, apparently I don't
know what I'm talking about. Toss the third one in there just for a little bit of added security and that feels pretty dang good. All right, let's give the second try a go. All right, all done braiding. Let's see if the second side
goes as smoothly as first one. So did I? Something like that. Is that kind of even? Ish, good enough. See if I can get this one to
pin as nicely and securely as the first. Well, shoot. That's only two and
we're doing pretty good. That worked surprisingly well. I don't often do the whole
buns over-the-ears look, but it's kind of cute. Let's see the veil again. You would want to pin this
in place with veil pins, kind of keep everything
nice and secure as can be. But yeah, like that is pretty dang cute. Very fun. Do I want to go get my veil pins and like actually do a thing? No, no, that's for another time. Another video maybe. I think I've actually already done that. So we are all done with the hairstyles. It was a lot of fun to
read the research paper and trying to get my head around how well single-pin pins would would work as opposed to modern double pins. I should have guessed
that it would be fine, but it was totally fine. Totally, absolutely
works which is very cool. So even though I am done
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for sponsoring this video. Hello, we meet again. So I want to start off with the spiral. I will show you really
quick how to make that. I do have two different types
of wire that I had ordered. Both of these are two
millimeter diameter wire, so they're relatively
hefty as far as wire goes. One is bronze, the other is brass. So starting with our brass,
which is a little bit softer, and therefore will take that spiral shape just a little bit easier. I'm going to take a piece off here. Now, I have been sanding down the edges anytime I cut off the wire
because I don't want the sharp edge to get caught on my hair anywhere. So let's go ahead and
sand this really quick. There we go. I think that's good enough. I'm trying to get it rounded off, it doesn't need to be
any particular shape. So I'm going to start by making a loop. So as you start your little
spiral, if you end up getting any points where
maybe one ring of your spiral is a little bit too big, as soon as you notice that's the case, now's a good time to go
ahead and try and manipulate the rings so that that section is tighter. Before I get too far, I should probably start
checking my diameters here. So the end that is
supposed to be my narrow and is not quite narrow enough. So let's tighten that up a little bit. It's not too hard to do
tightening and loosening of the coils, but it gets more difficult the more you have on the coil. So if you have some random
little point in the middle that you're trying to fix, and you already have
an inch on either side, that's harder to manipulate
than if it's near the end and you just need to
manipulate a couple of coils in order to fix it. Still just a smidge big. I'm sure watching me tighten coils is absolutely riveting. Now we've got a good rhythm going here. It's nice about the coil
is I keep making a loop and then sort of pushing
it down a little bit so that it doesn't increase
in diameter too quickly on my little spiral here. If I recall correctly, the main
example that they were using for most of their recreations
was a 22-spiraled loop. So 22 times around it spiraled. And by really bizarre Hackman stance, the first one that I made of these ended up doing exactly
that, which was really cool. I have this mostly spiraled around to make a cute little cone here. Now we do have this little
end peeking out here that I wanna go ahead
and file down smooth. Let's go ahead and tuck that end in. Which can be kind of tricky if you're trying to do it all by hand. But having some pinchers helps. I just kind of smoosh down
on the spot where that uppity bit is. I have a feeling that the
top of my cone is too big. So let me measure that. Though not by a lot, it's pretty close. It needs to be just a tiny smidge smaller, like one millimeter, but not bad. I know I'm sitting here fussing
over measurements a lot. But really in the end,
you wanna make it work the best you can for you. If your hair is a little bit
on the thinner or thicker side, then absolutely, by all means customize it so that it
fits you the best it can. I have just found that
the original measurements work pretty well with me based
on my other one that I made. So I might as well do that again. I suppose that if you
wanted to do two of them, so that you could have one
for each side of a braid, then you might also wanna
make a little smaller. All right, so that right there is a little spiral hair holder. I think you could absolutely incorporate one of these spirals
into a modern hairstyle. I've made a cute little
short one that I think would work really well as
the end of a pair of braids. What I would do if I wanted to
wear this with a spiral down rather than incorporating
it as part of an updo is to do your braid and then
also put in a couple of rubber bands at the end like
you normally would for a braid. You want that extra friction
from the rubbery style ones, which I think would hold
on to this pretty well. Now that said, if you're out
and about grocery shopping and you lose it, don't blame me. This is just a theory. But I think it's worth a try. And then for the second half
of this with the pin-making. I have my bronze coil here
and I'm going to go ahead and straighten a section
to start off with, and then file this
smooth just like before. We're gonna go ahead and form
a little loop out of this guy using one of your rounded
pliers might help too. Once I've made that initial loop, I like to go ahead and grab the base and then sort of bend the other way, creating more of a almost hook-like shape. You could leave it exactly like this and that would definitely be fine. Or you can try and tighten
up that loop a little bit, so it's a little bit more of
a circle at the top there. I actually don't recommend
unnecessarily closing that loop all the way. Because if you push it into your hair and you have a very tiny loop, then there's a chance
that your hair will go inside the circle, and then be
hard to get the pin back out at the end. Whereas if you leave the
loop a little bit open, then hair will definitely get in there, but it'll be easy to pull right back out. And the loop still does
its job of holding the pin at one end of your hair, kind of like the sort of
ball shape on the other pins. Measure out the length of the pin to be approximately 10 centimeters. And then clip it with your clippers. (clippers clipping) Once you have that removed
from the rest of the wire, go ahead and again, file
everything nice and smooth. (filing) So here is our finished little pin. If yours has gotten kind
of wiggly in the process, you can straighten it back
out again using a hammer. Don't go crazy, just a little
tappy, tappy, tappy taps until you straighten it back out. I've actually already
made several of these and have tried them
out on my hair already. So I already know that
these work just as well as the reproduction style
pins that I had manufactured. So if you guys want to try
this out for yourself at home, all you need is some good sturdy wire and a little bit of elbow
grease to have some lovely pins. If you guys decide to
make your own versions of any of the hairstyles
presented in this paper, let me know because it's
cool, and I wanna see. Also, oh my gosh, you should
absolutely check out the paper. I'm gonna make sure to include
a link for that down below. It's so cool. I think it's the best thing ever. I will give you the link and
you should go take a look at the article yourself
because it's very cool. Until next time, guys. I think I'm gonna do a
little bit of hairnanigans with these, and you have a great day. Thank you very much to Karina Grömer for this fantastic paper. Thank you also to The
Anthropological Society in Vienna for publishing the paper. As well as academia.edu
for digitally hosting it. You guys are all fantastic. And also, of course, thank
you to June's Journey for sponsoring this video.
Such a great video! I did a coupe of the styles but with my modern tools. I was in a sad mood and watching this video really lifted my spirits
Does anyone know where I could find some pins similar to what she has? I know she showed us how to make our own but I absolutely love the little diamond orbs on the tip of hers!