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Soft landings deserve the softest bed linens. Where else do you comfortably spend 8 hours at a stretch, but in your bed? So make it that special personal space with the finest bedding linens.
Making a beautiful and comfortable bed sounds easier than it is. Not only does the mattress or feather bed have to be just the right firmness, you also need the most attractive sheets, bed spreads and pillow covers. Yes, making a bed is an ART!
Every culture has its specific ideas of what is a comfortable bed. In the east, like in India and Japan, the floor makes a fine bed, with just a thin mat lain over it. Yoga too will tell you that the body is in its most natural resting position is to lie flat on your back on the floor. But legend goes that a certain famous princess of the west could not sleep even on a hundred mattresses because there was a tiny pea underneath the first one! One could hardly imagine her lying on the floor!
Whether you are the princess or the yoga master, chances are that, at night, your bed of choice is a mattress elevated in some way. The complete bed starts with a great mattress that suits you- soft, firm or extra firm. After a mattress and a box spring comes the mattress pad, and then the feather bed. The icing on the cake is the bed linens!
Flat sheets , fitted sheets, quilts , bedspreads , pillows and cushions are the essentials for a beautiful, tailored- looking bed. Whether you mix patterns and colors or prefer to match your bed linens, choosing the bed linens that suit you is an important part of making your bed the most exquisite, inviting, comfortable place in the world!
Although there is a range of fabrics available, such as satin or lace, nothing beats the simplicity and softness of pure cotton sheets. The natural feel of cotton soothes your skin as you sleep like no other fabric can. Cotton sheets are available at various sources, including online and over the telephone. To find the most unique and unusual 100% cotton sheets check out our block printed and embroidered sheets online here at Shalincraft.
Mixing and matching bed linens can give you the most attractive and fun patterns in the bedroom. Choose the most prominent part of the bed first: your quilt or other top bed spread. We have a wide range of gorgeous bedspreads from all over India available to you at this site. The best part is, we deliver to your door in a matter of days!
Having chosen the top part of your bed, coordinate the patterns of the pillows and cushions to it. Contrasting colors and designs can look great together, provided you pick with care. Check out our finely embroidered or printed cotton pillow covers. Silk cushion covers can add a luxurious touch to your bed. You’ll find the best of Indian handiwork on the cushion covers available at Shalincraft. Our special craftspeople embroider and stitch our items with thought and care just to be delivered to you, anywhere in the world!
If you haven’t got the time or just feel plain lazy, check out the great matching bed linen sets that are available here. It’s the quickest one-step way to a gorgeous and ornate bed. Each set comes with a flat sheet, two matching pillow covers, and a soft cotton quilt. These are available in a variety of designs and colors, all hand crafted by the craftspeople of India.
Whatever you choose, printed or embroidered, silk or cotton, remember that your bed is your most personal space. It is where you relax after a long hard day. It is the site of your most intimate dreams and desires. Make it special with the most beautiful bed linens!
When you want to give your bedroom and living room Asian style country look or rustic look that is also elegant, go for throw pillow covers. They are not just another throw pillow covers; they are works of art; they have soul. Cushion covers are a great choice for transforming the look and feel of a room in an instant. Fitting new cushion covers with vibrant colors, to the old cushions give a new and fresh look to the cushions. Cushion covers or sofa cushion covers give a new lease of life to old sofas and the entire look of the room. These days there is a rise in demand of the cushion covers with an Indian touch! These cushion covers and sofa cushion covers come in various shapes and designs. You also get a lot of variety in the fabric or the material used in cushion covers. Chair Cushion Covers from ShalinCraft are of several kinds – silk and brocade throw pillow covers from Benaras, block printed cotton throw pillow covers from Rajasthan, and tribal embroidered throw pillow covers from Gujarat. All three varieties come in standard sizes of 16×16 inches. However, bock printed throw pillow covers also comes in larger size of 24×24 inches. ShalinCraft throw pillow covers are unique for the quality of workmanship.
Soft landings deserve the softest bed linens. Where else do you comfortably spend 8 hours at a stretch, but in your bed? So make it that special personal space with the finest bedding linens.
Bedding, Bed Linens Sheets, Bed Spreads from India
Making a beautiful and comfortable bed sounds easier than it is. Not only does the mattress or feather bed have to be just the right firmness, you also need the most attractive sheets, bed spreads and pillow covers. Yes, making a bed is an ART!
Every culture has its specific ideas of what is a comfortable bed. In the east, like in India and Japan, the floor makes a fine bed, with just a thin mat lain over it. Yoga too will tell you that the body is in its most natural resting position is to lie flat on your back on the floor. But legend goes that a certain famous princess of the west could not sleep even on a hundred mattresses because there was a tiny pea underneath the first one! One could hardly imagine her lying on the floor!
Whether you are the princess or the yoga master, chances are that, at night, your bed of choice is a mattress elevated in some way. The complete bed starts with a great mattress that suits you- soft, firm or extra firm. After a mattress and a box spring comes the mattress pad, and then the feather bed. The icing on the cake is the bed linens!
Flat sheets , fitted sheets, quilts , bedspreads , pillows and cushions are the essentials for a beautiful, tailored- looking bed. Whether you mix patterns and colors or prefer to match your bed linens, choosing the bed linens that suit you is an important part of making your bed the most exquisite, inviting, comfortable place in the world!
Although there is a range of fabrics available, such as satin or lace, nothing beats the simplicity and softness of pure cotton sheets. The natural feel of cotton soothes your skin as you sleep like no other fabric can. Cotton sheets are available at various sources, including online and over the telephone. To find the most unique and unusual 100% cotton sheets check out our block printed and embroidered sheets online here at Shalincraft.
Mixing and matching bed linens can give you the most attractive and fun patterns in the bedroom. Choose the most prominent part of the bed first: your quilt or other top bed spread. We have a wide range of gorgeous bedspreads from all over India available to you at this site. The best part is, we deliver to your door in a matter of days!
Having chosen the top part of your bed, coordinate the patterns of the pillows and cushions to it. Contrasting colors and designs can look great together, provided you pick with care. Check out our finely embroidered or printed cotton pillow covers. Silk cushion covers can add a luxurious touch to your bed. You’ll find the best of Indian handiwork on the cushion covers available at Shalincraft. Our special craftspeople embroider and stitch our items with thought and care just to be delivered to you, anywhere in the world!
Duvets and comforters are very popular because the casual look is in, and because they’re cheaper – you can have two or three for the price of a fancy bedcover. Some are reversible so you get two for the price of one. And most are washable. In addition, you can quickly dress the bed with them during the day and cover up with them at night another two-in-one benefit...
A bed sheet is a piece of cloth that is designed and used to cover a mattress. A bed sheet serves the purpose of keeping the mattress clean from dirt and provides a more comfortable feel to the sleeper than if he or she were to simply lay on top of the mattress with no sheet…
Simple guidelines for what’s what in good pillows: it it’s not comfortable, don’t use it; and whatever you do, keep it clean. Frequent fluffing and airing will keep your favorite pillow free of sweaty odors and make it last longer. Feather and down-filled pillows are the softest and the most natural-feeling. But polyester, hollow-fiber filled pillows are also fluffy and comfortable. Throw Pillow Cover or Cushion Cover….
The bedcover bedspread throw in pure wool in jamawar jacquard design is in fact an enlarged version of jamawar jacquard shawl. It is particularly suitable for cold weather since it keeps the bed warm. Beside Jamawar bedspread throw is also very elegant to look at. The task of creating a jamawar shawl is complicated as the designs on these shawls are realized not by embroidery but by the simultaneous weaving….
Formal entertaining doesn’t mean you need an elaborate dining room set. Go for the unexpected to make things more interesting. A room can have a strong, elegant feeling using simple, mismatched elements. Here’s how you can do it on a shoestring budget. Cover a nondescript table with a beautiful table cloth and napkins…..
A quilt is a type of bedding— a bed covering composed of a quilt top, a layer of batting, and a layer of fabric for backing, generally combined using the technique of quilting. Another technique for securing the quilt layers is tying. Tying refers to the technique of using thread, yarn or ribbon to pass through all three layers of the quilt at regular intervals. These “ties” hold the layers together during use and especially when the quilt..
Wall Hanging made by the Rabari tribe living in the Kutch region of western Gujarat. These Asian decorating Tapestries are made of a mix of different kinds of waste rugs, in different colors, which are at once vibrant and provocative. This tribal art is a complex as well creative combination of patchwork, applique, mirror and thread embroidery..
All the communities of India decorate their doors with garlands on ceremonial days. Strings of mango leaves and saffron-colored, fragrant marigolds are hung in gentle loops on the door. These are called torans. However, toran is also the term applied to the various cloth, metal or paper buntings that are hung over the door. Scallops, triangles or inverted arches are most used in torans and each state…
Carpet weaving has strong traditions in India. In the early stages, the designs used in the Indian carpets were purely Persian. Besides the contemporary, traditional designs are also being revived. Durries made of fine Indian cotton as well as of imported Egyptian cotton, and of wool and silk are becoming popular
The chattai or grass mat is an indispensable part of an Indian household. India produces coir mats with improvised uses of coir, to even make mattresses. The mats have a fine upper layer and a coarse bottom one, and are stitched at the edges. Rolled and made to stand upright in a corner, when not in use, the chattai is used as an instant sitting space. Madder grass is collected, immersed in water and woven Mats..
ShalinCraft develops and offers different types of lampshades. These lampshades help to create a relaxing and dreamy environment in the home. These are designed in such way so that it could be the part of beautiful interior decoration. One can experience with edge effects, colors, blend modes, shadows, etc with these lamps. Influenced by the soothing and romantic ambience of the home invitees...
A blanket with a field of black is known as khes while a pattu has a white ground base; in both cases rough hand-spun wool locally produced and called pattanwadi is used. Apart from blankets, Jaisalmer and Barmer prduce shawls of quality, woven with softer and finer wool..
Leather bar stools are becoming more and more popular with each passing day. Many people enjoy the elegance and class these stools can add to any area of the home, such as the game room, dining room, or kitchen. It is important, in order to keeps everything looking its best that we learn what it takes to protect the stools from stains and the average wear and tear that could result from use..
The entire tradition of metal crafts probably arose from the warrior’s need to embellish his amour. His sword handle was probably damascened, the scabbard worked with gold and set with jewels, the dagger decorated despite its rapier sharpness, the shield and body amour enameled so that he went to the battlefield proud as a peacock..
Puja or Pooja is a religious ritual performed by Hindus as an offering to various deities or distinguished guests. It is done on a variety of occasions and settings, from daily puja done in the home, to temple ceremonies and large festivals, or to begin a new venture. Puja is modeled on the idea of giving a gift or offering to a deity or important person and receiving their blessing. The two main areas where puja..
Walk around Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, and it will require more than human effort not to be attracted by the arrays of puppets on display. The art of puppeteering has a long tradition in Rajasthan, but the puppets themselves are fairly simple creations. Mostly, they consist of painted wooden heads draped with dresses made from old fabrics and sequined for charm...
Presents are always very precious. They tell your dear ones how much you care for them. And when a present speaks for you, you must choose it carefully. It should be unique that no one else but you buys for your friends and family. It must have some meaning, some traditional values and of course a saga of creation. All these qualities are met when you choose an Indian handcrafted present..
Among the traditional textiles of India, the art of applique work occupies a distinguished place. Applique, which is a French term, is a technique by which the decorative effect is obtained by superposing patches of colored fabrics on a basic fabric, the edges of the patches being sewn in some form of stitching. The base cloth is usually colored. Some of the specially prepared motifs have exclusive embroidery work and some have mirror work. It is Orissa and especially in Pipli that the craft has a living and active tradition continuing over centuries. As with many other handicrafts of Orissa, the roots of the applique craft form is interwined with the traditions of Lord Jagannath, the deity of the Puri temple. The applique items are mainly used during processions of the deities in their various ritual outings. The stitching process varies from item to item and come under six broad categories. Artisans of Orissa are master to making colorful applique embroidered lampshades.
These extra light quilts are made from pure natural cottons, in brilliant hand block print patterns in the state of Rajasthan. Exquisitely printed in a wide variety of designs, these beautiful quilts provide an amazing degree of warmth and coziness. Curl up with one of these quilts and enjoy the luxury of smooth and cozy evening in total relaxation. It is so light that you can slip inside and not feel the weight of the quilt at all yet it is so warm it can be used in cold winters. The lightness is because of special cotton grown only in Rajasthan. This cotton is made lighter through a beating process mastered by the Rajasthan craftsmen. A very thin handloom cotton fabric used on quilts, which is printed using the direct hand block printing method. The main tools for printing are wooden blocks in different shapes and sizes called Buntas. The intricate designs that are to be printed are sketched manually on the outer cast of the block. Most of the designs are inspired from traditional motifs and mother Nature. Each block has wooden handles and free cylindrical holes for free air passage and to allow release of excess printing paste. Now the fabric is washed free of starch and soft bleached to remove the natural gray. The fabric is then stretched over the printing table and fastened to pins. The printer uses more of his expertise and experience while defining the printing area. He uses small wooden trolleys with racks on wheels to facilitate free movement as he drags it along as he prints the designs one by one, in an amazing symmetry. The printing begins from left to right and repeated until the finish. After the block is placed on the fabric, it is slammed hard on the back of the block handle to get a good impression on the fabric. Common standard colors are black, red, maroon, orange, mustard and brown. After printing, the fabric is processed with an acid wash and it is then that the final color is established.
According to the Vastu Shastra, it is not lucky to use a broken bed or to place it in the extreme corners of a room. The sensible reasoning behind this is that in an emergency, there should be enough space around the bed to allow a quick escape. For the same reason , the bed should not touch any walls of the room, says the ancient text. And it should be placed so that the person’s head points to the south. This is because the Vastu Shastra believes the body act like a magnet. Therefore if the head (as the heaviest and most important part) was towards the north it would repel against the north pole of the earth, so adversely affecting blood circulation. This, says the Vastu Shastra, will result in disturbed sleep and tension.
Colorful applique embroidered lampshades handmade in India. Among the traditional textiles of India, the art of applique work occupies a distinguished place. Applique, which is a French term, is a technique by which the decorative effect is obtained by superposing patches of colored fabrics on a basic fabric, the edges of the patches being sewn in some form of stitching. The base cloth is usually colored. Some of the specially prepared motifs have exclusive embroidery work and some have mirror work. It is Orissa and especially in Pipli that the craft has a living and active tradition continuing over centuries. As with many other handicrafts of Orissa, the roots of the applique craft form is interwined with the traditions of Lord Jagannath, the deity of the Puri temple. The applique items are mainly used during processions of the deities in their various ritual outings. The stitching process varies from item to item and come under six broad categories. Sometimes embroidered patterns are also used and in a few items mirror work is incorporated. The layout of various motifs and patterns vary according to the shape of the piece. Of the more common motifs are the elephant, parrot, peacock, ducks, creepers, trees, flowers like lotus, jasmine, half moon, the Sun and Rahu.
Vaastu, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘to stay’ is the name given to the science of architecture as learnt from the Vedas. Vaastu is also the name of a mythological person who was born from the sweats of lord Shiva and was buried in the earth. Based on his position of head, body, hands and feet, the directions of various sections of a house is decided according to the Hindu laws of architecture.
‘Vaastu’ literally means that which exists. It is derived from the Sanskrit word “Vaas”, to stay. Vaastu Shastra is the Vedic Architecture practiced since the ancient period.
It is believed that if a house is constructed according to the rules of Vaastu Shastra, it holds within prosperity, happiness and peace. The Hindu Mythology gives us the account of the Vaastu’s existence. It is said that once Lord Shiva was fighting with the fierce demons. During the fight some drops of Shiva’s sweat fell on earth that gave birth to a very strong man, called Vaastu. He was so strong that not only the human beings on earth but also the deities in the heaven were afraid of his might. Born from Shiva’s sweat, he had inherited his wrath as well. Might and wrath together made him very dangerous. The gods then decided to bury him in the earth permanently. To appease him and to prevent themselves and the human beings from his anger, they granted him the boon that he shall be worshipped before and after any construction is started on any piece of land. Whether it is the construction of a shop, a residence, a temple or any institute, he shall be worshipped to bring all round happiness and prosperity. And also to protect the building from bad luck and unfavorable conditions.
