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[Guest Mawr]

but I know someone who wants to tie a dastar but ONLY if it looks good. Else he will not start tying a turban.

He wants to tie it like Rocket Singh does it in the movies... here is a picture

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2478/brahe.jpg

Any idea what cloth/style the bhag is? Any videos that would show it to tie like that? Any help is appreciated. Just remember if one starts tying a dastar they will more likely stay on the path of Sikhi.

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[Guest gupttt]

That looks almost identical to this:

TAKEN FROM SIKHNET.COM, http://www.sikhnet.com/pages/tyingturbans :

http://radio.sikhnet.com/ramgen/turbantying/Tying_A_Turban.rm

http://web3.sikhnet.com/turbantying/wmv/Tying%20A%20Turban.wmv

General Men's Turban

This another common Sikh turban style for men. Unlike the "double patti"/double wide turban, this turban is longer and goes about 7 times around the head.

Turban Tying 101

1. Wash the Pugree once before you use it to get rid of the starch it has.

2. For the material use either Rubia or Voyal. Do not use Malmal as it is very fine and needs to be starched before use.

3. Wear a patka underneath as it prevents the turban from slipping.

4. If you have a big joora (hair knot), do not make it right in front at your forehead. You will end up tying the turban on the joora it will make your turban look very high and big.

5. You would have noticed that I did not take care in ensuring that the Pallas on right hand side of the turban are neatly placed. You can try and do it. I suggest you try this only after you can get your Pallas on the left hand side in place.

6. It will take regular practice to get a neat turban; do not get frustrated if your turban is not neat even after about 5 to 10 attempts.

7. Practice tying your turban on a daily basis. Once you do it daily it wont take you more than 5 mins to tie a nice neat turban.

8. Do not feel shy to ask people at the local Gurdawara Sahib for help.

9. This style of turban is the very basic style, I recommend this style to all beginners as it solves the problem of ensuring that the palla themselves are neat and do not have any folds in them. Also as the width of the pallas is uniform tying the tuban becomes easy. Once you are comfortable with this style you can move on to various other styles.

10. If you need any more help please feel free to contact me

Yours Humbly, Angad Singh (Singapore)

[Guest gupt]