Fabric of Hair Celebrates Black History:
Freedom in Hairstyle🧡💛🧡💛
The history of slavery is filled with stories of significant innovation and sheer resilience. One of these is how the slaves in Colombia, South America devised ways to escape slavery through the use of art created in cornrows.
In that time, hair braiding was used to relay messages.
For example, to signal that they wanted to escape, women would create braided hairstyle called departes.
Departes signature style consisted of tight braids, braided closely to the scalp and was tied up into buns on the top.
This amazing communication skill has now become a fashion statement called Cornrows, which have rich African origins; are now common all over the world.
This traditional hairstyle is steeped in the history of revolution and redemption.
Note: Cornrows are a “style of hair braiding, in which the hair is braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to make a continuous, raised row.
In the Caribbean Islands, they are also known as “cane rows” to mean “slaves planting sugar cane”, and not corn.
This style of design have a long history. As it is thought cornrows initially came from the Stone Age paintings in the Tassili Plateau located in the Sahara region. The usage of cornrows dates back to 3000 B.C.
Also a known fact they usage of cornrows by men can be traced as far back as the early 5th century BC.
This hairstyle has had its experience of being disfavored in formal spaces, workplaces and educational institutions, especially in the Western hemisphere.
However for people of African origin and decent, cornrows are rich with cultural heritage and historical pride.😍😍😍😍😍