Rock Salt Lamp - A natural air purifier

Rock salt lamps: A Natural Air Purifier
Reasonably priced and stunningly beautiful, a Tatsat Salt Lamp is a rich source of negative ions. By lighting the salt crystal with a bulb inside the lamp releases negative ions into the air. Not just the lamp blends well with the environment but it improves air quality and your body’s health. When a lamp is lit, it attracts humidity and the surface of the salt crystal becomes damp. Negative ions build up and then released. Crystal salt lamps bind the excessive positive ions with their negative ions that cleanse the air of bacteria, smog and pollutants. According to Feng Shui and Pranic Healing, Negative ions also benefit asthma patients, people with chronic lung illnesses, and allergy sufferers. Thus it improves learning, memory, and hollistic well being.

Shibori Product range

Tatsat presents Shibori Saris, stoles, scarves and dupattas in various colors and designs.

How is Shibori Done - II

In the next stage, the stitched designs are thoroughly checked and then each thread is painstakingly tightened. An eleborate design can often have upto 200 threads that need to be meticulously tightened.

Checking the tightened piece of Shibori comprises the next essential stage. The checked piece is then dyed repeatedly till the required shade of colour is achieved. In Shibori that's indigo particularly, the stages of dyeing can often go upto 10 to achieve the correct depth of colour. Post dyeing, the piece is scrutinized yet again to ensure that dyeing has occured uniformly. After this, it is opened to rveal the Shibori design. Lastly, the opened piece is fixed using an organic fixer so that colour fastness can be ensured.

How is Shibori done - I

Unlike fabric painting or printing techniques wherein a flat surface is esential, Shibori as a craft form focuses on folding, wrapping, twisting or pleating the fabric as a preparatory process. In fact, in Shibori, how well the fabric is prepared often determines how perfect the design would finally appear.

Shibori

Shibori is a craft which can largely classified under "Tie and Dye". It uses the method of resist dyeing with thread which may be used for stitching the design onto the fabric or for winding around the fabric or for keeping a scrunched fabric in place. Today, Shibori and similar dyeing processes are being used not only in Japan, but also in China, India, Indonesia, Africa and Latin America.