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Posted by Lauren on November 3, 2001 at 16:48:23:
In reply to: too many resources to list posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on November 3, 2001 at 00:08:24:
: My secret for finding the stuff is to simply pick a country where: henna can easily grow, and start flipping through books with
pix ...
: and watch hands.
I have two books of paintings, one Indian, which clearly shows finger
dips and palms reddened on women and gods, and one Persian, which has
only a couple with women in it, and strangely enough, none of them
have discernible henna at all. At any rate, I haven't been able to
find pictures that would let me see an actual, detailed design in the
same way that you can see the blackwork patterns in Holbein's
paintings. I know they must exist, and I've seen some of them, but
I'm at a loss as to where to find them again. I was hoping to find
some online, printable pictures, but a suggestion of a reasonably
easy to find book would be great. What I'd really like is some
actual written evidence of henna use aside from pictures. Somebody
on here a long time back mentioned Roman cargo manifests listing
henna as a trade good. A recipie would be great, or a description of
a period Night of the Henna.
I am willing to do my own original research, and to draw my own
conclusions based on available evidence, but redoing what's already
been done solely for the sake of having done it always struck me as
needless.
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