SunshinEarth

one day someone asked me,

"How many friends have you?"

i thought...

10 or 20 friends or may be more :)

And began to name a few...

then i thought,

"hey hang on a minute..a friend is just not someone

to whom you say "Hello"...a friend is a tender shoulder on which you softly cry...a well to pour your troubles down...and raise your spirits high...a friend is a hand to pull you up from darkness..."

and after that i named two....

one i have already intoduced in my last post...

n the other one is no more my friend :) rather have become my life :)

"Friendship n Love grows out of chance....meeting a mere glance & then a smile touches the heart in more way than one !

Isn't it great we grown........

From being perfect strangers to ,Perfect friends n more n more in complete harmony with each others thoughts, hopes & plans......... "

---Unknown

this is how we grown...from 'jus familar' to 'friends' to 'best friends' n now to 'life' :)

i must have wished upon a lucky star, to have someone as

wonderful as this guy by my side......Sometimes in life, you find a

special person. Someone who changes your life just by being part of

it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop. Someone

who makes you believe that there really is good in the world.

Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door

just waiting for you to open it. This is my sunrise to me . When I'm sad

and the world seems dark and empty, he lifts me up in spirit and

makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full. He

gets me through the hard times, the sad times and the confused

times. If I turn and walk away, he follows. If ever I lose my way, he

guides me and cheers me on. He is the one who holds my hand and

tell me that everything is going to be okay. To have him, I feel happy

because I need not worry. I have my sunrise forever, I have my earth forever,

and forever has no end...

take care! be there hamesha..i love you...love-trust-care

love, Sunshine

NONWOVEN FABRICS

Nonwovens is the term used in the textile industry to denote fabrics, such as felt, which are neither woven nor knitted. Nonwovens are manufactured by putting small fibers together in the form of a sheet or web, and then binding them either mechanically, with an adhesive, or thermally applying binder and melting the binder onto the web by increasing temperature. These are mainly produced from man-made fibers.

NON WOVEN FABRIC-FORMING TECHNIQUE:
Adhesive Bonding
Thermal Bonding
Needle Punching
Hydroentangled
Stitch Bonding

AREA OF USE:

Hygiene : baby diapers, feminine hygiene, adult incontinence products, wipes

Medical : isolation gowns, surgical gowns, surgical drapes and covers, surgical scrub suits, caps

Filters : gasoline, oil and air, water/coffee/tea bags, liquid cartridge and bag filters, vacuum bags

Geotextiles : soil stabilizers and roadway underlayment, erosion control, canals construction, drainage systems, geomeambranes protection

Other : carpets, packaging, pillows/cushions and upholstery padding, consumer and medical face masks

for more details, visit:
Nonwoven Fabric - Wikipedia, and more

just a thought, so thought to share :)

nights turned into mornings,
friends turned into family,
dreams turned into reality,
and likes turned into love...
celebrate life...design life :) :)
and that's what I call...
designing life.... :)

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KALAMKARI, an art from South India :)

Kalamkari = kalam + kari
kalam means pen and kari means craftmanship, so Kalamkari means drawing with pen. But here I'm not discussing about pen/pencil drawing, but I want to tell you all about this truely amazing textile-printing technique.

This craft started at Machilipatnam in Andhra pradesh (India) during the Mughals and Golconda Sultanate. There are two styles of this art: one Srikalahasti Style, and the other Machalipatnam Style. Kalamkari art has been practised by many families in Andhra Pradesh and has constituted their livelihood.

It refers to a method of painting natural dyes onto cotton or silk fabric with a bamboo pen or kalam, using only natural dyes. This style includes flowers around temples and their patronage and have had areligious identity - scrolls, temple hangings, chariot banners, depicted deities and scenes taken from the great hindu epics - Ramayana, Mahabarata, Puranas and the mythological classics.

Technique
The cotton fabric gets its glossiness by immersing it for an hour in a mixture of myrabalam (resin) and cow milk. Contours and reasons are then drawn with a point in bamboo soaked in a mixture of jagri fermented and water; one by one these are applied, then the vegetable dyes. After applying each color, the Kalamkari is washed. Thus, each fabric can undergo up to 20 washings. Various effects are obtained by using cow dung, seeds, plants and crushed flowers.

New Asian Pop Art

Artist: Ketna Patel

An Indian artist, lived in three diffirent continents. her creations show her
personal experiences, cultural immigration, observations of popular and
high culture. Here are some of her amazing work.

Find more about her on
www.ketnapatel.com

Kitsch 'Indian' :)

Kitsch is a German word denoting art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of anything and everything. The style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value. It uses elements that may be thought of as cultural icons making cheap mass-produced objects that are unoriginal is associated with the concept as well. Kitsch also refers to the types of art those have aesthetic deficiency.

Let me show you a few but very interesting examples of Indian Kitsch Art :)

FIBRE---->YARN---->FABRIC...

Food, Clothing and Shelter are the three basic needs of life. Food to survive and protect from diseases, house to live in, clothes for protection against climate, for modesty and beauty, and also to show status. The material that you use for clothing is called fabric. It’s a long process to get fabric for clothing. And I believe, if you use fabric you should little bit about how it reached from Fibre to Fabric.
FIBRE
Do you know what fabrics are made of? Take a cloth and pull out a thread. Untwist to loosen this thread. You will see that it is made up of smaller threads or hair like strands. Pull out one of these. This single hair like strand is called a fibre.

A fibre is a hair like strand from which all fabrics are made.

Fibre Classification:

Natural Fibres:
Some fibres are obtained from natural sources, that is, from plants and animals. Fibres from such sources are called natural fibres. Some examples of fibres from natural sources are cotton, Jute, silk, wool, etc.
Man-made Fibres:
The other type of fibres are obtained from chemical substance. These are called manmade fibres. They are rayon, polyester, nylon, acrylic (cashmilon) etc.

YARNS
Do you remember pulling a thread from a cloth and opening it? That thread which was made of fibres is called yarn.

A yarns is a continuous strand made up of a number of fibres which are twisted together.

The process of making yarns from fibres is called spinning.

FABRIC
Fabrics are made in two ways:
1. Weaving
2. Knitting

Weaving:
You all must have seen the seat of a chair or a chaarpai made with nylon or cotton. These are made with tape - when two sets of tapes are interlaced with each other at right angles.Similarily a fabric is also made by interlacing two sets of yarns at right angles. This whole process of interlacing two sets of yarns at right angles to make a fabric is called weaving.

Knitting:
Pick up a sweater and any other woven fabric and compare the two? Yes, in case of a sweater, there is interlocking of loops. You must have seen your mumma or grandma knitting sweaters with needles. If you try to do it yourself, you will see that every time you make new loops from previous ones the length increases. Knitting is also done on machines. Besides sweaters, you can make other garments also. For example, T-Shirts.

There is another innovative technique for making fabric called 'Nonwoven', which is neither woven nor knitted still used world-wide and very helpful for Sustainability...soon I'll discuss about this amazing fabric too.