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Hello everyone,

Here's our card for Raksha Bandhan, a festival celebrated in India. You can read more about it below.

When Waffle Flower Crafts released their Cross-stitching dies, we were excited despite being a beginner. The excitement only grew by leaps and bounds upon opening the package and throughout the process of die-cutting and stitching the pattern. 

We must admit that clearing out all the little bits from the die cut paper was tedious, but worth the pleasure that we got on finishing this piece of #handmadelove.

Raksha bandhan:

Raksha bandhan is the celebration where sacred thread is tied by sister to brother. It's commitment to protect and take care of sister by brother in all situations. Also sister ties it and pays to good for her brother's well being.

Its obvious that raksha bandhan became emotional and wide spread ritual when India was undergoing attacks by outside looters who not only just tried to loot materialistic wealth but also our sisters 'samman'. 

Today's rakhi celebration is more of "brother-sister" day to enjoy the gifts and sweets. 😊

Little confusion about raksha bandhan tie up by wife to husband is also seen in few places as read in some articles - as we saw that sacred thread tie up is used in many rituals in hindu culture, dring war time in olden days, wife used to tie pooja thread to husband seeking protection from God. Also war was commitment for kings to protect their people and also it's seen as yagnya/pooja of god only.

Rakhi day rituals:

Early morning, thread ceremony to be done where sister does pooja of cotton or silk thread extracted. Basically process of filling positive energy into thread and tie a knot in it which symbolizes holding that energy which will protect the one who wearing. Now a days, it's replaced by plastic/foam sheet images etc.,

The best time to tie Rakhi on Raksha Bandhan is during Aparahna which is late afternoon according to Hindu division of the day or in evening just before sandhya time it seems.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini