Crochet Antarpaat a very rare Article,

 

Hello friends,

Do you know what is Antarpaat means? many of you may not. Antarpaat is a secrad cloth hold in Hindu wedding, between Bride and groom untill the holy rituals are complete. Antar means keep at a distance and pat means patal or cloth. When Antarpaat is removed at proper time the bride family and groom family are supposed to be unite. Moreover bride and grrom are supposed to be unite as disjunct. Oneness is supposed to developed after that.

 In thread ceremony also it is used between Father and Son and when it is removed the son is supposed to wholely merge in his First Tutor (GURU) to learn further or start learning. 

Antarpaat is such a holy cloth, naturally many holy symbols are printed on it just as Swastik, Kalash etc.

Here I made one very Special Crochet Antarpaat. There are all secrad symbols on that as OM, Shubh, Labh, Kalash, Swastik and also Mango leaves Toran as a border.

In the video I have not explained each and every line to make this Antarpaat. Three posts which I have already published will be useful for that. The whole Antarpaat is made in 3 strips with border. The middle strip is made of three parts.

OM (middle one) which is made in single crochets. The related post and videos are shared below.

https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=OM

I made it with 34 stitches. Then continuing on right side I made LABH letters and SHUBH you may make separately and sew here to OM on left. My post shared below and Video willbe useful for that.

https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=shubh+labh+wall+hanging

Then on the top of this middle strip I made double crochet row, making 2 dcs in each dc-row and 1 dc on sc-st (or row). Total there will be 182 sts (your's may be 1-2 less or more. 

Then to make upper strip for which we have to just think mathematically.

See for Kalash we need 22 sts, we skip 13 sts on both sides. Thus for one Kalash we need 35 sts for 2 Kalash 70 sts. Thus 181-70=111 sts remain we have to fix 3 swastik there. 

Then we think about Swastik. I need 17 sts for 1 swastik. It means for 3 swastik 51 sts. 

Now 111-51=60 sts. and there are 4 places to fix them. So 60/4=15. Look at the following figure.

In the figure S stands for swastk and K stands for Kalash.

If your stitches 1 or 2 more it doesn't matter. Either reduce it to this number or if  more then 2 then instead of 13 sts on both sides skip 14 or 15 on both sides.

The third part that is lower part of Antarpaat: As we developed upper part directly by making dc-line along the line, we can make the lower part in the same manner. Because otherwise you will have to work from top to nottom of the design which is difficult. Hence I made third part separately and sew it to the middle one. 

Then make the single crochet border with coconut color yarn on three sides skipping bottom, making 3 scs at corner. While making single crochet border you may add beads as I have done after every 2 single crochets.

Lastly make Mango Leaves Toran as a lower border. Join green yarn at first st,

R1: (ch14, sc1 in 8 sts) rep till end, lastly chs 14, sc in last st. If necessary instead of 8 sc you may make 6 or 7 in last and first place. Note that 14 chs must be in first and last st.

R2: [along 14 chs make (sl st1, sc2, hdc2, dc3, hdc2, sc2, sl st), skip first st make sc in 6 sts, skip last one] rep till end. BO.

The I sewed pompom as merigold flowers which is also supposed to be very secrade.

Lastly you may may slip stitch row at the joint of three parts as shown in video.

The following video with English subtitles may help you.

ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.