Dreadlocks

History and Culture of Dreadlocks and info on methods of how to get your locks poping! We Love Dreadlocks! E-mail photos of your dreads to tikhert@yahoo.com

Welcome to Dreadlocks. Here you will learn the history and culture of dreadlocks. And our experts will help you in getting your locks beautiful and right. We hope to answer all your questions and give you new appreciation for a very unique and often misunderstood hair style.

Dreadlocks, also called locks, a ras, dreads, or Jatayein (Hindi), are matted coils of hair. Dreadlocks are usually intentionally formed; because of the variety of different hair textures, various methods are used to encourage the formation of locks such as backcombing. If combs, brushes, and scissors aren’t used on the hair, the hair will tangle together as it grows, eventually resulting in the twisted, matted ropes of hair known as dreadlocks.

Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including the Hindu Shiva worshippers of India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Maori people of New Zealand, the Maasai of East Africa, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan. The Rastafarian movement has taken Dreadlocks to a more known spiritual journey due to it famous followers like Bob Marley, Steele Pulse, Burning Sprear and much more.

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