What does the red and white swirl on a barber shop symbolize?

I remember I read somewhere that it symbolized something back then. First person to give the correct answer with a website to back it up gets 10 points!What does the red and white swirl on a barber shop symbolize?
Blood and bandages


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber's_po鈥?/a>What does the red and white swirl on a barber shop symbolize?
Dude, Google.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber's_po鈥?/a>



barbers used to do minor surgery (aside from yanking out bad teeth) so the red was the blood and the white was the gauze or packing to stanch the bleeding
it goes back to when barbers used to preform operations and surgery. The red is a wound and the white is the bandage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber's_po鈥?/a>