The question of henna use in China has come up many times in my research, and I finally decided to address it... My obvious hesitation is t...

Why does the dove always have henna on her feet? Because when Noah sent forth a raven and a dove from the Ark, the raven never came back. T...

I’ve already blogged about henna in East Africa here , and of course I’ve done several posts about henna in North Africa (e.g. here , here ...

At a recent academic conference, I heard a paper presented by Professor Deborah Starr, from Cornell University, about the films of Egyptian...

I had a lovely private appointment a while back whose client wanted some henna for her upcoming trip to East Africa, including Kenya and Ta...

Hi henna blog readers! I know it’s been a while — the beginning of my PhD program has meant that I’ve been even more busy than usual… I’m su...

In our last blogpost , we explored the possible evidence for hennaed drumheads in medieval Spain. In the end, while there are many images of...

I’ve been swamped with thesis research and planning my upcoming move (!) so I apologize if posts have not been coming as regularly. My thesi...

The things I do for you, dear readers! This blogpost almost got me thrown out of a museum… But such is the life of a henna researcher. ...

Happy Nowruz! This weekend marks the spring equinox, March 21, marked by many communities across Central and South Asia as Nowruz ( نوروز‎ ...

A friend of mine asked me the other day if there were henna traditions in Europe... Of course! In this post I thought I'd feature one su...

I'll preface this by saying that I'm not a member of the SCA ( Society for Creative Anachronism ), although I've been to a few e...

Welcome to 2015, and welcome to our 50th blogpost! I’ve had a great time sharing my research with all of you and look forward to much more...

What Do You Mean, No Paisleys? A Short History of Modern Indian Henna Designs I had a great time participating in HennaCon , a conferenc...

With all the terrible news coming out of Iraq these days I thought I’d take a departure from my research on Jewish henna and North Africa to...

I’ve settled back from Morocco but I’m still going through my henna photos… One interesting thing I’d thought I’d post about is the use ...