Hana-Bandan - Iranian Henna Bridal Party

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These henna designs were applied yesteryear Suhayr, a wonderful friend of my eldest daughter.

Recently, I had the smashing pleasance of helping my dear friend throw a  حنابندان hana bandan/bridal shower political party for her beautiful daughter, Parisa. It was a fabulous even out of music, dancing together with delicious food.  Hana bandan/hana bandoon is an former Iranian pre-wedding ritual dating dorsum to several hundred years ago. The henna ceremony is usually held yesteryear the bride's household unit of measurement the twenty-four threescore minutes menses earlier the wedding and henna glue is applied on the bride's hands and sometimes the groom's hands together with feet as the household unit of measurement gets hit to post their immature lady off to commencement a novel chapter inwards her life. This tradition may vary from portion to portion together with from household to household. It's believed that applying henna brings adept luck together with happiness to the newlyweds.

The dependent area of hana bandan seems somewhat obscure inwards our civilisation together with there's little data available about it. After some research together with inquiry, a adept friend of mine gave me a re-create of the hana-bandan page from Mahmud Katiraie's book, "Khest ta Khesht," which is written inwards Persian and is nigh Iranian culture, traditions together with folklore. According to the author, the twenty-four threescore minutes menses earlier the marriage ceremony the groom's household unit of measurement sends over the khoncheh (large wooden tray) of henna to the bride's home. Khoncheh would comport the 7 brass or silver bowls of freshly prepared henna adorned amongst silverish together with gilt coins surrounded yesteryear dissimilar colored lit candles. The henna designs would include the images of a sparrow, tree or a flower. Iranian henna designs are elementary together with non real elaborate and intricate.

 Boy Holding a Falcon, Iran, Late 18th century, Qajar Dynasty, Hermitage Museum

'The Shirin Painter,' Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 immature lady acrobat balancing on a knife, c. 1840 (Source)

Probably yesteryear Mahammad Hasan, menses of Fath 'Ali Shah, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 woman bring upward together with kid amongst parrot (Source)

For those who are interested inwards the dependent area matter, there's an informative article on the online encyclopedia Iranica nigh Henna. There's too an interesting article, The Patterns of Western Farsi Henna by Catherine Cartwright-Jones, that examines the fine art of Western Farsi henna from the like shooting fish in a barrel 13th century to the mid 19th century together with asks for farther research. The paper offers several references to henna yesteryear the smashing classical Western Farsi poets such every bit Roudaki, Jami and Sa'di along amongst several paintings depicting hennaed hands. Based on the author's research the fine art of Western Farsi henna precedes the Hindu intricate henna designs yesteryear several hundred years. With the spread of European cultural influences together with urbanization, hanna bandan ceremonies became unpopular together with demode, a thing of the past. Today inwards modern Iran, many of the immature Iranian women detect the purpose of henna distasteful together with old-fashioned.

Nighttime inwards a Palace, Iran, 16th century , Harvard University Art Museum 

I had never attended a henna ceremony inwards the past. However, my sense amongst henna goes dorsum to my childhood growing up inwards the southward of Iran. Every summer, my woman bring upward who was a huge fan of henna would apply henna throughout my pilus together with would larn out it for several hours earlier washing it during those hot summertime days. She believed using henna would nourish the pilus together with the scalp together with go every bit a natural pilus conditioner. On the twenty-four threescore minutes menses that I was packing to larn out for America she tucked some henna into a sheet pocketbook together with placed it inwards my travelling steal filled amongst the things that I idea I wouldn't hold upward able to detect here.

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