My research so far- can i get bigger pictures somehow?Posted by Lauren on November 5, 2001 at 03:38:27: I was wondering if anyone had had luck finding larger copies of apainting to look at details. I went through I don't know how many books today lookiing for (expletive deleted) henna pictures. I found a scant ten out of thousands of pages, two of which are really guesses. I have lots of pictures of finger dips and palm painting, which are easy enough to come by. So far i have found only three pics of an actual design- an astrological sketch showing two women or peris, I'm not sure which, with different arrangements of dots on their palms, a woman with dipped fingers up to the palm joint with dots in a line pattern above that, and (the one I've GOT to see a bigger pic of) a period Indian woman with what appear to be designs going down the top of each foot. It's too small to make out whether it's a shoe top, but it would be a strange shoe top if it were. I'm intrigued. Is there a reference book which has locations of various art works? I've just got to see this one better. Her hands are not hennaed so far as I can see. I'm very disappointed that I haven't found any other designs. It seems that Indian stuff was still primarily dips even into the 1800s. When did the lacework start? I found no pictures other than very modern ones of Indian women with any sort of pattern. I'm surprised i haven't found more Turkish stuff. I have quite a few books of turkish art and found just a couple people, both of which seem to have hennaed nails only or up to the first knuckle, which is at odds with what I expected. I still have a couple more books to go through (different libraries) so I hope to have more Persian stuff tomorrow, but for now I'm frustrated and intrigued in approximately equal parts. Damn. Yay. Ugh. Will report more tomorrow.
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