Sunday, January 20, 2013

How To Make Batik Ikat Celup (Tie and dip) Part1




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Batik is the one of kind craft from Indonesia. There is many types and variation of Batik. Batik Tulis (painting batik), Batik cap(stamp batik), Batik Ikat Celup (Tie and dip Batik). Basicly Batik is A technique which lid color on medium. Here Iwant to share with you guy about how to make Batik Ikat And Celup (Tie and dip, in other name we call it with sasirangan) (see preview picture on the top head of this article).
Same as the name, batik ikat & celup or sasirangan made by tie and dip a fabric. This Batik came from and become a tradisional batik from kalimantan, the ones island in indonesia. Let we use cotton for medium. Tie part is apart which we don’t want to coloring. Here the step:

First, Take a Cotton fabric for your medium. Make a pattern, for example we use this simple pattern
example pattern
So you can make the pattern on your Cotton with the same pattern. How to make it? here Iwantto share you how to make te pattern.


Do hand sewing. use baste stitch technique.let the base and end of the thread are open. see (a)image. If your pattern finish, then pull both base and end of your thread strong, and tie. see (b) image.This is simple way.
(a)                                                                (b)

This is a simple way, in other part I will share you about the others technique and coloring technicque in batik

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

KNOWING A MOUNTAINEERING TENT

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The tent is one of the very major appliances must be owned by a hikers, because the tent will keep us from the weather that unfriendly.

There are many types of tents on the market. You must be careful in choosing them for extreme outdoor activities such as hiking or mountaineering.
Some of the requirements that must be owned by a decent extreme outdoor’s tent you can see below:

1.   High.
Tent for mountainering have lower contruction than a camping tent. It’s about 1 metres. Because the tent with lower consturction have better standing when exposed to strong wind.

2.   Material
Good tent have two part or double wall. Outer  and inner skin. Outer skin we call it Flysheet. Choose a Tent with nylon for Flysheet material with seam taped on each joint. Don’t choose a tent with flysheet using cotton material. Because You are in the Mountain, You don’t want to be freeze. But for inner skin you use to choose cotton material.
When you standing up the tent, Make sure that the tent have a distance between Flysheet and inner skin about one hand span. It is to prevent your inner part wet when the rain ouside part (flysheet). It will give you good respiration and isolation and keep your inner dry.  

3.   Form
When you are looking for A Mountainering tent, Avoid choosing a tent that has a gaping open section, especially the upper part, because it would be exposure to wind, because the wind and the storm is the main obstacle when in altitude.
Dome, Or Geodesic?. Dome tents are a good compromise between stability, pitching time and weight. Although not as light for their size or as quick to pitch as a tunnels they are more stable. Dome tents however tend to have less head room, their highest point being located only at one point in the centre. The lack of head room is usually worked around by adding extra poles to make space for porches or bedrooms. These add-ons are effectively single pole tunnels and have the same advantages and draw backs.  
Geodesic tents are the most stable tents available. Though heavy and complex to erect, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks if you are pitching your tent on a mountain and want it to stay there. This pole configuration is so strong that it can withstand heavy snow fall that would crush all other types of tent.

4.   Frame
Wich one frame do you need? There are 2 types of farme, Fibre glass or Aluminium. Fibre glass frame is cheaper than Aluminium Frame. But Fibre glass frame easily broken.

5.    Vestibule or Whithout Vestibule?. Vestibule is a room located in front of tent entry. With vestibule you can save your equipment there, you can cook when outside raining.
6.    Guylines
mountaineering tent certainly have straps fasteners particular section which is useful for resilience in the face of a tent in the mountain breeze. ropes are generally placed at points Of frame construction provide additional strength to frame so as not to break.

7.   The Bottom of Tent
There are many kind bottom of tent that you can find in the market. Choose the tent with waterproofing material for bottom side. You can make a footprint underneath. With adding footprint you can reduce the friction between your bottom tent with ground. You can avoid infiltration of water from bottom.

8.  Weight
Choose a tent with normalize weight for mountaineering. Remember, because you ‘ll brought so much equipment in your Backpack or sack.