This linkspage shows how women’s hair was arranged into various hairstyles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Additional images of hair-combing and hair-cutting can be found elsewhere on this site; or see these additional links on how to arrange medieval & Renaissance hairstyles.

• A maid dresses a lady’s hair, the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 63r), c. 1325-1340
• Sketch of a woman combing her hair, c. 1400
• Idleness combs her hair, Le roman de la rose (Douce 364, fol. 6v), c. 1460-1470
• Hilleke de Roy and four of her orphans, 1586
• Women dressing their hair, on the Maiden Quarter ceiling at Palazzo Pitti, by Alessandro Allori, c. 1588-1589 (see details of women washing, combing, and parting their hair)
• A woman having her hair combed by a maid, Habiti d'huomini et donne Venetiane (British Library C.48.h.11, plate 30), 1609