"England Style" Turban

[Cisco_Singh]

Im not familiar with patiala shai styles or terms likem double pooni etc.. Basically the typical UK modified design based on Kenyan/East African dastaar involves strecthing out the material length ways, 1 person each side..keep the material stretched, fold in half length ways, fold in half again, then fold 1/3 from one side and the 2/3 on top. This can be amended depending on how wide you want your larrs.

You'll end up with 5/6 metre lenggh of flat folded material about 5 inches wide then you can start tying starting from left side of your head first lar goes over the top of your head,and you work your way down. Difficult to describe someone needs to make a youtube video

[californiasardar1]

Im not familiar with patiala shai styles or terms likem double pooni etc.. Basically the typical UK modified design based on Kenyan/East African dastaar involves strecthing out the material length ways, 1 person each side..keep the material stretched, fold in half length ways, fold in half again, then fold 1/3 from one side and the 2/3 on top. This can be amended depending on how wide you want your larrs.

You'll end up with 5/6 metre lenggh of flat folded material about 5 inches wide then you can start tying starting from left side of your head first lar goes over the top of your head,and you work your way down. Difficult to describe someone needs to make a youtube video

Thanks!

[VSinghz7]

On 10/15/2012 at 10:22 PM, Singh559 said:

Requirement to tie an Englandi pagh is to have an Englandee accent. Whenever you tie it, you have to speak like the englandees. innit m8

Always ask for bibi elizibeth's asheervadh

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golden commment

[VSinghz7]

On 10/15/2012 at 10:19 PM, californiasardar1 said:

Hi Everyone,

I'm interested in tying an "England style" turban. I was wondering:

How long of a piece of cloth is generally used?

Is it double patti or single?

Thanks.

Ik i'm a few (13) years late but basically:

1. Get a single Mal-mal dastar (around 3-5 metres) and starch it. You just whisk 2 ladles of starch (Kershaw's, cornstarch or maida) with around 5 cups of water until it's completely smooth and mix it on low heat flame for around 20 mins until it goes clear and think like water. When this cools off, take a clean but damp turban and soak it into the starch and make sure you coat the whole dastar evenly
2. You leave it out to hang dry in the sun/air. Once dry u can store it in a cool, dry place until you wanna tie it (for about 4 months)
3. Take the dastar, sprinkle some water all throughout the turban to make it slightly wet and just soft enough to tie. Then you and another person hold the dastar at each end to make a stretched rectangle (two people holding one corner in each of their hands). Fold it in half width-wise 3 times.
4. Tie the turban like this quite loosely. The starch will make it tighter as it dries BUT TIE IT STAIGHT ONTO YOUR HEAD. NO MINi-TURBAN BENEATH IT. JUST TIE YOUR FLATTENED JOORA ON TOP OF YOUR HEAD AND THE DASTAR DIRECTLY ON TOP
5. Secure it with pins and wear it on your head until it has dried from the water you sprinkled before the pooni. After it has completely dried (give it around 3-4 hours just to make sure) you take it off your head DO NOT UNWRAP IT TAKE IT OFF IN IT'S SHAPE and the next time you need to wear you can just place it on your head over your flattened joora instead of tying this. You can do this for around 5 months after you first tied it until you have to ever tie it again.