There’s a dark undercurrent to the kind of beauty that makes Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy tick. Why else would the designers crown their fall runway girl with a twisted barbed-wire headband?

Barbed wire normally consists of two long wires that are twisted together to form a cable. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, OCTOBER 24, 1861, TRANSCONTINENTAL TELEGRAPH COMPLETED, CONNECTING COAST FOR THE ...

Want to explore more than 2,000 varieties of barbed wire in the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum? Or get an in-depth look inside the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment at the Museum of Flight in ...

“A second barb-less wire was twisted around the first wire thus doubling its strength, durability and also holding the many barbs in place.” (Yes, there are at least two “barbed wire” museums, and ...

Patent drawing for Joseph F. Glidden’s Improvement to barbed wire.. Glidden’s design took off, and by 1876, his company was producing nearly three million pounds of barbed wire annually ...

VERONA -- To the members of a local synagogue, the metal railroad tracks and twisted barbed wire of a new Holocaust memorial are a poetic reminder of a tragedy beyond words. But some neighbors of ...

LA CROSSE, Kan. -- In the Hollywood version of the Old West, it was the rip-snorting, gun-toting cowboys who tamed the wild frontier. In reality, it was barbed wire that made the difference. Just ...