From Pamela Anderson’s iconic barbed wire armband to tribal designs, cartoon characters, ‘tramp stamp’ lower back tattoos, flowers, butterflies, roses, dolphins, suns, Yin and Yang and old ...

Today barbed wire seems a natural part of the Texas landscape, but to our great-great-grandparents it was anathema. Once called the devil’s hatband, it brought controversy, bloodshed, and ...

The year that Glidden secured his barbed wire patent, 32 miles (51km) of wire were produced. Six years later, in 1880, the factory in De Kalb turned out 263,000 miles (423,000km) of wire, enough ...