Traditional Henna Designs

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pepin Press
Publisher Place: Amsterdam
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 240 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Henna body decoration is generally practiced on festive occasions, religious ceremonies, most notably, weddings. In all cultures that practice henna painting it is the hands and feet that are commonly decorated; for weddings the designs can extend onto the arms and legs. Design motifs vary from culture to culture. For instance, North African Henna Designs tend to be geometric or composed from highly stylized flowers. Indian designs are usually drawn within a square, rectangle or circle which is then surrounded by a myriad of smaller patterns that cover the hands and lower arms, the feet and ankles. Motifs are taken from a vast Indian decorative vocabulary: Moghul flowers, Paisley patters, complicated tendril designs, stars, vines, spirals, leaves, checkerboards, water drops and waves.

ISBN: 9789054960683