Cheap Pashminas & Shawls

Cheap Pashminas & Shawls

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Healing Colours: Pashminas & Shawls

The Healing Qualities of the Colour Green Green is the color of healing and traveling back in time. It will balance the emotions and brings about a feeling of calmness. Green is a good general healing color because it stimulates growth therefore it is good for helping heal broken bones - regrowth of tissue of all kinds. Green is also alchemy - the alchemy of consciousness from one realm to another through the spiraling energies of DNA Green as a healing frequency can be placed around family members who are ill. Though many of you are not attuned in the palms of your hands with this frequency color - it is part of you now. View our shawl collection here

The Healing Qualities of the Colour Peach The peach frequency is used for peace, truth, and balance.

The Healing Qualities of the Colour Orange The mental body in both its logical and conceptual form. It is used to increase immunity, to increase sexual potency, to help in all digestive ailments, chest and kidney diseases. Orange will have a gentle warming effect if used lightly. Orange, like red should not be used for too long. It is not a good color for nervous people or people easily agitated. We stock a selection of Orange shawls to enhance your feeling of well-being. View our shawl collection here

The Healing Qualities of the Colour Red Red is the color of energy, vitality and power. It is used for burning out cancer, drying up weeping sores or wounds, etc., it will warm cold areas to reduce pain. Red is a powerful healing agent for healing diseases of the blood and circulation. It will help with depression. Red is not to be used on people with high blood pressure or anxiety. If you stay under the red ray too long or are exposed to red for a considerable time it will make you very agitated or even aggressive. It is associated with the male polarity. A red carpet or wall - in a place of business - will draw money. If you are a sales person - try wearing something red!! We stock a selection of red shawls to enhance your feeling of well-being. View our shawl collection here

The Healing Qualities of the Colour Yellow Yellow is the color of intellect and it is used for mental stimulation, it will help you think quicker. It is good for clearing a foggy head. To help cure dermatitis and other skin problems and again it must be used carefully because it is very stimulating and it could cause exhaustion and depression. We stock a selection of yellow shawls to enhance your feeling of well-being. View our shawl collection here.

 

Shopping for Silk Scarves and Shawls in India

In the past, Indian cloth was received in markets that were physically and culturally worlds apart. Nowadays the global society we live in means the two are edging closer together. At h4heaven we have a wide range of silk scarves and shawls, leather handbags, viscose shawls and pashmias which are both practical and cheap and jacquard shawls and pashmina products, the majority of which is sourced from India.

Silk, known as Pattu or Reshmi in southern parts of India and Resham in Hindi, has a long history in India and is widely produced today. Historically silk was used by the upper classes, while the poorer classes used cotton. Today silk is mainly used in Bhoodhan Pochampally (also known as Silk City), Kanchipuram, Dharmavaram, Mysore, etc. in South India and Banaras in the North for manufacturing garments and Sarees. ‘Murshidabad silk’, famous from historical times, is mainly produced in Malda and Murshidabad district of West Bengal and woven with hand looms in Birbhum and Murshidabad district. Another place famous for production of silk is Bhagalpur. The silk from Kanchi is particularly well-known for its classic designs and enduring quality. The silk is traditionally hand-woven and hand-dyed and usually also has silver threads woven into the cloth. Most of this silk is used to make saris. The saris usually are very expensive and vibrant in colour. Garments made from silk form an integral part of Indian weddings and other celebrations. In the north-eastern state of Assam, three different types of silk are produced, collectively called Assam silk: Muga, Eri and Pat silk. Silkworms that are native only to Assam produce Muga, the golden silk, and Eri.

The heritage of silk rearing and weaving is very old and continues today especially with the production of Muga and Pat riha and mekhela chador, the three-piece silk saris woven with traditional motifs. Mysore Silk Scarves, which are known for their soft texture, last many years if carefully maintained.

For a beautiful Indian silk scarf or pashmina, visit us today!

Colour For Autumn (Fashion) - Another Monochrome Season?

Another Monochrome Season?

Many of you will have been trying to make the most of what has been a ‘consistently inconsistent’ summer with regard to the weather in England. If last night’s thunderstorm and fork lightning experienced in London did not have you in awe, it may at least have got the fashion conscious amongst you anticipating this autumn’s trends.

Of course, the eternal black and white and all grey/monochrome shades are again fashionable. But this season, silver will be also on the crest of the fashion trends, as are all metallic/silver palettes even with hue of blue or green. Navy is, as always, as much a staple as black. Autumn and winter wardrobes are often far more expensive than your summer wardrobe and the long-term investment potential should definitely be considered- the most import

ant thing is to stick to the colours that suit you best. London fashion week, held this year on the 14^th-19^th September, should establish this autumn’s trends more clearly.

At h4heaven we have the following products in designer styles but at high street prices…

"Ce Soir" Clutch/Shoulder Bag
(satin, black crystal, diamante)
£31.99

9ct White Gold Diamond &
Black Pearl Drop Earrings

Which Tone of Colour Suits You?

Which Tone of Colour Suits You?

Trinny & Susannah's 'Colour the Nation' experiment dispersed all our colour myths and misconceptions.

Blondes can wear orange, red-heads can wear yellow, brunettes can wear silver: they just need to find the right TONE of colour to suit hair, eyes and skin. They grouped the nation into three tone categories:

Cool tones: hair: white or ash blonde, black, dark brown, mid-brown. NOT: red or auburn, no ginger or yellow at all
eyes: dark or have a dark iris edge
skin: alabaster white, olive, black. NOT: freckly, no red at all
Wear: navy blue, dark red, dark grey, dove grey, bright turquoise, blue red, cardinal purple

Best shades for cool tones: (view the full collection by clicking here)

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Mid Tones: hair: reddish tone: ginger, auburn, strawberry blonde
skin: reddish, freckly, possibly sallow. NOT: olive, dark brown
eyes: pale blue, hazel, brown or green

Wear: pure reds, pure fuschias, dark lavenders, lemon yellows, periwinkle blue, light aquas, sage greens,

Best shades for mid tones: (view the full collection by clicking here)

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Warm Tones: hair: mouse brown, dark blonde, mid brown, mid auburn
skin: blueish tint, pale, washed out or peaches and cream
eyes: green, aqua or blue

Wear: autumnal shades: rust browns, burgundy, mustard, teal, sea green,

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Cheap Pashmina Shawl

Cheap Pashmina Shawl

Do you need a cheap pashmina or shawl? Do you need it in a hurry? We stock hundreds. All of our shawls are good quality and cheap. Choose from our very cheap viscose range with current offers including buy 2 save £2.50! With prices already as low as £6.85 per shawl, you could grab yourself an exceptional bargain. We also sell cheap pashmina shawls in silk and wool. Click on any of the images to be taken to our products. We are confident you will find the cheap pashmina shawl you are looking for.

TURQUOISE ROCKS!

Turquoise was among the first gems to be mined...

The pastel shades of turquoise have endeared it to many great cultures of antiquity: it has adorned the rulers of Ancient Egypt, the Aztecs (and possibly other Pre-Columbian Mesoamericans), Persia, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and to some extent in ancient China since at least the Shang Dynasty. Despite being one of the oldest gems, probably first introduced to Europe (through Turkey) with other Silk Road novelties, turquoise did not become important as an ornamental stone in the West until the 14th century, following a decline in the Roman Catholic Church's influence which allowed the use of turquoise in secular jewellery. It was apparently unknown in India until the Mughal period, and unknown in Japan until the 18th century. A common belief shared by many of these civilizations held that turquoise possessed certain prophylactic qualities; it was thought to change colour with the wearer's health and protect him or her from untoward forces.



The Aztecs inlaid turquoise, together with gold, quartz, malachite, jet, jade, coral, and shells, into provocative (and presumably ceremonial) mosaic objects such as masks (some with a human skull as their base), knives, and shields. Natural resins, bitumen and wax were used to bond the turquoise to the objects' base material; this was usually wood, but bone and shell were also used. Like the Aztecs, the Pueblo, Navajo and Apache tribes cherished turquoise for its amuletic use; the latter tribe believe the stone to afford the archer dead aim. Among these peoples turquoise was used in mosaic inlay, in sculptural works, and was fashioned into toroidal beads and freeform pendants. The Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) of the Chaco Canyon and surrounding region are believed to have prospered greatly from their production and trading of turquoise objects. The distinctive silver jewelry produced by the Navajo and other Southwestern Native American tribes today is a rather modern development, thought to date from circa 1880 as a result of European influences.

In Persia turquoise was the de facto national stone for millennia, extensively used to decorate objects (from turbans to bridles), mosques, and other important buildings both inside and out, such as the Medresseh-I Shah Husein Mosque of Isfahan. The Persian style and use of turquoise was later brought to India following the establishment of the Mughal Empire there, its influence seen in high purity gold jewellery (together with ruby and diamond) and in such buildings as the Taj Mahal. Persian turquoise was often engraved with devotional words in Arabic script which was then inlaid with gold.

The Egyptian use of turquoise stretches back as far as the First Dynasty and possibly earlier; however, probably the most well-known pieces incorporating the gem are those recovered from Tutankhamun's tomb, most notably the Pharaoh's iconic burial mask which was liberally inlaid with the stone. It also adorned rings and great sweeping necklaces called pectorals. Set in gold, the gem was fashioned into beads, used as inlay, and often carved in a scarab motif, accompanied by carnelian, lapis lazuli, and in later pieces, coloured glass. Turquoise, associated with the goddess Hathor, was so liked by the Ancient Egyptians that it became (arguably) the first gemstone to be imitated, the fair semblance created by an artificial glazed ceramic product known as faience. (A similar blue ceramic has been recovered from Bronze Age burial sites in the British Isles.)

The French conducted archaeological excavations of Egypt from the mid-19th century through the early 20th. These excavations, including that of Tutankhamun's tomb, created great public interest in the western world, subsequently influencing jewellery, architecture, and art of the time. Turquoise, already favoured for its pastel shades since c. 1810, was a staple of Egyptian Revival pieces. In contemporary Western use, turquoise is most often encountered cut en cabochon in silver rings, bracelets, often in the Native American style, or as tumbled or roughly hewn beads in chunky necklaces. Lesser material may be carved into fetishes, such as those crafted by the Zuni. While strong sky blues remain superior in value, mottled green and yellowish material is popular with artisans.

In Western culture turquoise is also the traditional birthstone for those born in the month of December.

H4Heaven: H4Heaven's Pashminas, Shawls, Wraps, Stoles & Scarves Range

H4Heaven: H4Heaven's Pashminas, Shawls, Wraps, Stoles & Scarves Range

Aromatherapy - The Origins

Aromatherapy originated in France and is incorporated into French mainstream medicine and is just as commonly used there to treat, for example, a headache, as paracetamol is used in the UK. The word 'aromatherapy' was first used in the 1920s by a French chemist Rene Maurice Gattefosse. Rene spent his life researching the healing properties of essential oils following a burning incident. He had burnt his arm and thrust it into the nearest liquid, which happened to be lavender oil, and was surprised by the imminent pain relief. He also noticed how the burn healed quickly leaving no scarring. He continued his research and during World War I used essential oils to treat gangrene in wounded soldiers.
View our range of aromatherapy products here.
Medicinal: Today, in the UK, aromatherapy does not have quite the same level of acceptance. At best, aromatherapy is thought of as a complimentary treatment and, at worst, pseudoscientific fraud!

Calming: The fragrance of lavender, when heated, has a relaxing and calming effect. One only needs to reflect on how a herbal bath (Radox, for example) destresses to see how herb and plant extracts can be helpful in a busy, stressful life.
View our range of aromatherapy products here.