Caribbean & African Style Head Wrapping by Karen Salandy...
Head wrapping £10 You can bring your own Material for head wraps
Alternatively Textile for Head wraps are charged at £10
Styles of Head Wrapping are as diverse as the people and countries this tradition stems from.
Head Wrapping Tutorials
One-on-One Teaching Session
Group: on application
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This is just a small selection of what can be achieved.
About Head Wraps More than a popular fashion accessory, statement, or sign of individuality, head wraps are a cultural and spiritual form of expression across many cultures and faiths. The Rastafari movement have been wearing turbans over their locks along with robes since their founding in the 1950s, which make them highly distinctive in appearance in Jamaica and elsewhere. Also worn in the Middle East, North Africa and Southwest Asia, they are designed to help keep the wearer cool in hot desert environments. South Asian turbans may be permanently formed and sewn to a foundation. Turbans can be very large or quite modest dependent upon region, culture, and religion.
Indians refer to their head wraps as Pagri, and is a symbol of honour and respect across all regions where it is a practice to wear one. It is also why almost all of these will honour important guests by offering them one to wear.
Yemenite Jew in the early 20th century wearing keffiyeh wrapped as a turban. Wraps come in many shapes, sizes, and colours.
Women in many parts of Africa and the West Indies often cover their heads with intricately tied scarves which may be called scarves, head wraps, or turbans. Men of the Tuareg, Berber, Songhai, Wodaabe, Fulani, and Hausa peoples of North and West Africa wear turbans, often veiling the face to block dust. People of Kenya tie a distinct style, sometimes called "valeti style". This style is most commonly tied in the UK and in Kenya. Afghan turbans Afghan men wear a variety of turbans, known as Lungee. Lungee is worn in Afghanistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, especially in the tribal areas. The lungee is usually worn in meetings, but a majority of Pashtuns prefer to wear it in everyday life too.
During British period, The Muslim elites of South Asia especially of western Punjab used to wear long pagri which was also a symbol of nobility, honour and respect. In Punjab and Sindh members of the landed aristrocray always wore this pagri. This pagri was a part of full formal dress and was used to wear with Sherwani. In the western world Turbans have been worn by men and women since the 17th century, without ever becoming very common. Poet Alexander Pope is sometimes depicted wearing a turban.
The Sikh turban, known as the Dastar, is mandatory for all Khalsa Sikhs to wear. The Pheta is worn in Maharashtra and also has regional variants likePuneri and Kolhapuri pheta. In Mysore and Kodagu the turban is known as the Mysore Peta. The Rajastani turban is commonly called the Pagari. It will vary by caste, class, religion and region. It also serves practical functions like protecting from the elements, used as a pillow, blanket or towel. When unravelled, it is used like a rope where it is tied to a bucket to draw water from the well. The Pagri will also vary in shape, size and colour. The colour will vary according to occasion it will be worn. For example, Saffron (associated with valour) is worn during rallies, White (associated with peace) is worn by elders, Pink (associated with spring) is worn during the spring season or marriage ceremonies, etc.
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians usually wear short white turbans made of thin cotton, as do the Ethiopian Muslims. Although the turban is mentioned in several translations of the Bible, such as in Zechariah 3:5, Christians in general do not see wearing turbans as part of their religious practice.
The men of many Islamic cultures have worn or wear a headdress of some sort that may be considered a turban. Islam considers the turban as being a Sunnah Mu'akkadah (Confirmed Tradition) . Head wraps that men wear are called several names and worn in different ways dependent on region and culture. Examples include Amamah (Arabic: عمامة) in Arabic, dastār (Persian: دستار) in Persian. In Shi'a Islam, wearing a black turban symbolizes a well educated person in the Shi'a school of thought. Green turban is a distinctive feature of a Hajji.
In Sudan, large white headdresses are worn; they generally are meant to connote high social status. In most of the Arabian peninsula countries, they wear a form of turban that is plain or checkered scarf (called keffiyeh, ghutrah or shumagh), though the Arabic Amamah tradition is still strong in Oman (see Sultan Qaboos of Oman), Egypt, Sudan as well as some parts of the Arabian peninsula.