Necessity is the maternal well from which springs greatest in number inventions.

Necessity is the maternal well from which springs greatest in number inventions, or so it has been said. That is conformable to fact of headwraps, as well.

Georgia Scott an art director for the fresh York Times who lives in Harlem, became interested in by what mode the peoples of the world, male and female, adorn, veil or shield their heads with cloth. She writes that her have choice to wear wrappings was a timesaving, cosmetic device at the height of a fad in the 1990 Researching an article upon why people the world athwart have opted for draping their heads in similar fashion, she fix scant literature or scholarship onward the subject. To fill the gap, she took a year not on cashed in assets and bought enough tickets to take her in succession a 32-nation, 53,000-mile journey. Her travels rambled between the walls of regions of Africa to the Czech Republic and Turkey Along the way, she took 4000 evocative photographs and copious notes.

What she readys in this generously illustrated and descriptive travelogue is a glorious mosaic of nuance and interpretation in abounding color. She found a world where the manner of writings and the societal imperatives for covering the head may shoot from religion, harsh weather, marital status, age or any combination. Fortunately, she documents about traditions that are becoming extinct. In her words: "This volume is more than a picture work with captions. This book is an examination of the civilizations of diverse peoples. Fabric is the for the use of all denominator."

--Reviewed according to Angela P. Dobson

Headwraps: A Global Journey on Georgia Scott Public Affairs, November 2003 $3500 ISBN 1-586-48109-6

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