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Description: | This barber's bowl was made in 1680. At that time men went to the barbers once or twice a week for a shave. Only in the 1900s did men begin to shave more frequently and at home. The man's neck fitted into the crescent shaped cut-out and the bowl caught the water and lather. Until 1745 barber-surgeons could perform simple surgery and the bowls were sometimes called 'bleeding bowls'. On loan from the Society of Antiquaries. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East home life men | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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