retrowunderland:

The fabulous fashion & style of the Harlem Renaissance, c.1920s-1930s

queennubian:

loverofsoul:

Lira!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

angrydumpling:

non-westernhistoricalfashion:

Queen Puabi’s Headdress, Diadem, Beaded Cape, and Jewelry
Early Dynastic III (2550-2450 BCE)
Royal Cemetery, Ur (modern day Iraq)

With Art Philadelphia:

Queen Puabi’s headdress, beaded cape and jewelry, all ca. 2550 BCE (includes comb, hair rings, wreaths, hair ribbons, and earrings) of gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian, was excavated in the early 1930s by a joint Penn Museum/British Museum team, at the ancient Mesopotamian Royal Cemetery of Ur, in what is now Iraq. The Queen went to her final resting place accompanied by several hundred female attendants, several guards, and a rich cache of objects. Puabi’s headdress included a frontlet with beads and pendant gold rings, two wreaths with poplar leaves, a wreath with willow leaves and inlaid rosettes, and a string of lapis lazuli beads. The comb would have been inserted in her hair at the back, leaving the flowers floating over her head. Her beaded cape and jewelry includes pins of gold and lapis lazuli, a gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian garter, lapis lazuli and carnelian cuff, and gold finger rings.

View images of the Penn Museum staff assembling the headdress here, and watch a video here.

Sources:

• Penn Museum
• With Art Philadelphia
• About.com
• Sumerian Shakespeare
• ArtNet

I referred this in my first year of art school. Never thought I’d keep seeing it all over the place.

timur-i-lang:

“[These] two rectangular tiles [are] painted in coloured slip with partially dressed dancers associated with the harem, preparing for a bath. They were probably made in Isfahan for a Safavid palace or bathhouse.  Bathhouses, an important focal point of daily life, were traditionally decorated with luxurious glazed tiles lining the pools and tile panels ornamenting the walls.

Each figure holds a spouted pouring vessel in their hands, which have been coloured orange-red with henna. A paste of powdered henna was applied or painted in designs on hands and often feet and left on overnight to producee a stain, which was highly admired. Dark almost black henna, suggests the evidence of wealth, as it was produced using costly essential perfumes and oil, whereas a paler colour indicates that water was used a binder. That both hands are stained is further evidence of an elite lifestyle indicating that a skilled henna artist has applied the stain.”

cutieevip:

-d

Jiyong x BSX

(Source: i-m-forever-young)