Re: OT kinda, hey CCJ!
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on April 02, 2000 at 21:41:03:
In Reply to: OT kinda, hey CCJ! posted by Anne on April 02, 2000 at 19:16:07:
I'll check it out ... facial patterning is really, really cool! And
since it parallels henna, it's not that far ot.
I was just looking at some 16th century Persian paintings of ladies
with lovely facial marks and some very nice fingertip henna (nails
with a little fillagree just below).... it was interesting in that
that particular manuscript had both red and black henna on fingertips,
and included ethnically Chinese women with hennaed fingernails (the
Chinese that were bordering the Persian empire .... say around
Uzbekistan). Considering that the Chinese word for henna is
"fingernail flower" or ("fingernail decoration" depending on how you
translate it) that manuscript shows henna passing between Persia and
China.
I think harquus is classy beyond words! Anyone need 3 more pages of
harquus patterns?
