Talk:Tressoir

should this page be deleted?

I can't find any references to it online, and the article itself doesn't cite any sources and hasn't been updated since 2018. Seems like it should be deleted. AD Vortigern (talk) 20:01, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

There isn't anything on the French Wikipedia, not even a redirect

I didn't find a suitable redirect target on the English Wikipedia either. Rolluik (talk) 12:23, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

From the two sources given, Les bijoux anciens et modernes says:

'In the 12th century, a diadem called a tressoir was tied around the head to hold the hair at the nape of the neck. Pearls and pieces of goldsmithery enriched this tressoir. In the past, the hair was divided in two on the top of the head and braided into two braided plaits that descended down the arms. On the forehead, a chapelet (small hat), a tressoir (braid), or a cercle d'orfevrerie (gold headband) secured a veil of fine fabric to the head.'

and Histoire de la coiffure des femmes en France says:

'As for the women, they divided their hair into two parts and gathered it in a voluminous bun behind the neck, enclosing it in the hairnets just mentioned and in embroidered bags. Sometimes they also held it in place with gold threads intermingled with silk threads and also placed around their heads a rich headband or tressoir (braid).' & 'The veil could be replaced by a silk headdress covered with a mesh called a crépine, attached to this headdress by a goldsmith's tressoir (braid).'

Based on these, I think this article would be better served as a Wiktionary article, not a Wikipedia one. AD Vortigern (talk) 19:00, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, I speak some French enough to get the gist but not enough to understand what exactly they were saying. I'm fine with whatever happens with this article (merge, redirect, delete, wikitionary...), I just would not support keeping as a seperate article. It is too insignificant. Rolluik (talk) 19:48, 18 August 2025 (UTC)