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Sculpture
The ART of Natural Hair African Venus” was created by the sculptor Charles Henri Joseph Cordier in bronze in 1851. The sculpture was created as a companion piece to an earlier work created by Charles Cordier entitled “Said Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur”. The model was a young African woman by the name of Seïd Enkess who was a former slave in France. Both busts became popular after France abolished slavery in 1848. Charles Cordier himself was sympathetic to the abolitionist movement and believed in the beauty and equality of all races.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Waist beads for all Curves
Deborah Jackson Embers of "BEAD MY CURVES", is currently scheduling private waistbeading appointments. All waistbeading is done at the Sisters-Locked Artisans Collaborative. She has a variety of new beads brought directly from Ghana, handmade and selected just for your waist.
These beads have been designed for waists of all sizes preferably for curvier waists. We are finding that vuluptious sized women are enjoying the waistbeading more than ever and Deborah encourages larger women to become beaded to enhanced their fabulous bodies.
Women of all ages and sizes wear waist beads! Waist beads have traditionally been worn under clothing by some African women. Waist beads have many different meanings in the many different tribes that wear waistbeads. Rites of passage, enhancing attraction to your partner, healing, body adornment, as well as for the young ladies today, just a simple fashion statement and new way to accessorize.
In Egypt, waist beads were called “girdles”. The women wore them as a uniform for pre-pubescent girls with out any sexual connotation. In West Africa, waist beads have several names.; Jel-Jelli, Jigeda, Giri-Giri, Djalay Djalay or Yomba. In Ghana women knew that waist beads helped form their body into a particular shape and adult women wore their beads to sexually stimulate their partners.
In other parts of West Africa, women would wear waist beads with bells. therefore, creating a jingling sound effect as they walked. Dipping them in natural oils or adding stones are a way to assume natural healing. As you know natural oils and semi-precious stones have been used for many years as natural healing elements in almost all cultures.
Waistbeads are the perfect measuring tape to monitor weight gain or loss. It serves in so many different ways for all women of all shapes and sizes. You would be doing yourself a dis-service not to have at least one strand of waist beads around your waist.
What's so special about being beaded at Sisters-Locked Artisans Collaborative by Deborah? Well, you are served a piping hot cup of herbal, medicinal or Red Bush African tea, as your beaded and the sounds of traditional african music and aromatic candles fill the room for a calm relaxing experience. Not to mention the beading process is extremely affordable.Same cost for curvy or non curvy waists. No additionl charges here. What a wonderful treat and a wonderful gift for someone special. Contact Deborah at (510) 501-9932 or email: Sisterslocked@gmail.com (510)730-0241 for your private session.
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Sewra wasitbead history was very educational. Thanks to her for sharing.
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