European Middle Ages Once a Barber Surgeon had completed the procedure they were working on, they would hang the bloody bandages outside and these bandages would twist and turn in the wind, forming the familiar spiral pattern.

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Spinning barber poles are meant to move in a direction that makes the red (arterial blood) appear as if it were flowing downwards, as it does in the body. Facts like this are often forgotten in the barbering industry.

The bloody bandages associated with bloodletting inspired the red and white stripes, while the barber pole itself symbolises an instrument people gripped onto during the procedure to encourage blood flow. Barbers would place the barber pole outside their barbershop, to let customers know they were open for business.