Calamistrum

This article deals with the calamistrum in its original meaning as an ancient branding iron, for the biological term see Cribellate spiders .

In Roman antiquity, a pipe made of metal (usually bronze or iron ) was called calamistrum (from Latin calamis "reed", "stalk") . It was warmed on wood ash or a heated stick pushed in and used like a curling wand or a modern heating curler . The technique originally came from ancient Greece. The curly fashion experienced in the 1st century BC. Chr. Its heyday, the carriers of the corresponding hairstyles were calamistrati (or -Tae ) and the slaves who krausten the hair and shaped, were calamistrae called.

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• William Smith (ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , 1870