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Harquus Traditional Women's Tattoos and Facial Markings from North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia: History, Traditions, Techiques and Patterns. |
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 Use ONLY safe, temporary cosmetics to reproduce traditional harquus pattterns! Use waterproof eyeliner, black body paint, or Harquus available from mehandi.com! Never apply a PPD-based "black henna" product to your skin, especially to your face! PPD, para-phenylenediamine, is synthetic black hair dye frequently used to make "black henna" temporary tattoos can cause severe injuries and scarring. If applied to the face, PPD can cause permanent blindness. For more information on the dangers of "black henna," see: http://www.hennapage.com/henna/ppd/index.html |
Harquus.com
is the
newest site in a group of sites devoted to henna: The Henna Page,
TapDancing Lizard, Mehandi and Henna for Hair. Henna cannot be
completely understood separated from its context in other women’s
adornments such as tattooing and body painting. Harquus.com
will explore the extended group of women’s body arts from countries
where henna is a tradition, and situate henna within these
adornments.
Harquus is a word for black facial ornamentation in North Africa and the Middle East. It can refer to both tattooing and skin painting. The patterns of harquus, tattooing, and henna often mirror each other, and were intended to enhance each other. Harquus.com will provide historically accurate patterns, carefully researched articles, and means to recreate these traditional body arts with safe, temporary cosmetics. These will be available in PDF format so you can download, print, and keep them in a notebook for reference. Current
Articles
Introduction ~ Part 1: PDF file, 3 pages 328K
Introduction
~ Part 2: Kohl and SurmaPDF file, 9 pages, 500K
Recreating Harquus Harquus Gallery Ethiopian
Pattern 1
PDF file, 2 pages, 186 K Algerian Woman #70 PDF file, 7 pages, 721K My Lover's Pillow PDF file, 5 pages, 256 K Upcoming
Articles
Gallery Moroccan
Patterns 1
Moroccan Patterns 2 Algerian Patterns 2 Qajar Patterns Songs of the Tattoo Artist The Traditional Artists Traditional Tools and Techniques |
