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First, compliments on the Wiki; I just found it tonight after having drafted three emails to Indian businesses in the garment industry asking someone to please send me a Gandhi cap pattern so I can sew some for my family. I may not get any response, but I'll ask you: Do you know of a source for such a pattern? Probably every female householder in India who sews for her family has such a pattern. I looked all over the Internet and the only one I found was a small portion of a rather expensive pattern, chiefly focussed on Indian garments. But it's only the cap. I've watched the YouTube videos showing young men and women constructing them from newspaper, but I'm not that good and don't think I can "transfer" that into
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RE: Search for Affordable Pattern to Make Gandhi Cap (and not with newspap
By: gedwoods,
Dec 6 2012, 10:18 AM EST
Hello, the Gandhi Cap is an interesting item - I will look into adding it to the wiki. On a quick search, I only found the following site, which you probably have already seen (http://ramvinoartandcraftworks.blogspot.ca/2012_03_01_archive.html) - all they seem to have done is transfered the instructions for making a newspaper cap into a cloth one using canvas, but the page gives very little information and the photos are next to useless. I will continue searching, however, and put in a few queries on the sites I know, you never know what will turn up on the internet! The problem with patterns for Indian clothes is the one you highlight in your message - they all do it, but haven't formally published what it is they do. The same issue exists for other Indian clothes, but over time a few patterns have emerged. Note that the Gandhi cap is also called the Nehru cap - I got more traction on the "Nehru cap" as a search term than on the "Gandhi cap". Good hunting!
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