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Wilson Fabrics Ishtar Pencil Pleat Curtain These woven textured Wilson Fabrics Ishtar Pencil Pleat Curtains will add a contemporary and modern addition to your home. Featuring 3 pass backing, this curtain will blockout light and provide energy saving qualities, keeping your home cooler in Summer and warmer in Winter. Warning: Curtain and blind cords have caused the deathof young children and must be installed so that theyare not a strangulation hazard. Follow the installation instructions. 1 pair of curtains. 80 - 140 cm width x 213 cm drop140 - 220 cm width x 213 cm drop220 - 270 cm width x 213 cm drop270 - 340 cm width x 213 cm drop You may also like Windowshade 16 mm Expandable Shepherd's Crook Rod Set Tribeca Stayed Single Bracket Ivory 75 mm Goldline Sun Out Lining Granada Textured Jacquard Fabric More from this range Wilson Ishtar Roller Blind Wilson Fabrics Ishtar Eyelet CurtainWilson Fabrics Ishtar Eyelet Curtain These woven textured Wilson Fabrics Ishtar Eyelet Curtains will add a contemporary and modern addition to your home.
Pencil Pleat CurtainsLooking for a fresh new look for your home, or to replace those sun-faded curtains? Spotlight has a range of curtains in different lengths, styles and designs.These timeless and classic pencil pleat curtains can be gathered by some handy curtain tape to fit the width of your curtain rail, and are available in a number of drops to suit the height of your windows or doors. Choose from plain or patterned curtains in a number of colourways, and keep out sunlight or dark nights with our range of pencil pleat curtains and give your room a warm and cosy appearance. Can I buy Pencil Pleat Curtains at Spotlight?Pencil pleat is the traditional standard heading for curtains and valances. A 7.5 cm (3") tape is used with three hook positions to suit all types of track and pole. Sometimes also known as tape top curtains, pencil pleat curtains need to match the size of your window by pulling the three strings in the tape at the back of the curtains. For a full, luxurious look, most manufacturers recommend that you buy curtains at least twice the width of your window, but if you think this is too much, pulling the strings a little less tightly will allow you to use curtains about 1.5 times the width of your window.
Why are here three hook positions in the header tape?This is done to give you more choice over the length of your curtain, and how it attaches to the curtain hook or pole. Some people prefer the curtain to cover the track, in which case you would put the hooks into the lower row on the curtain header tape. For some curtains that are hung onto curtain rings on a pole, you might prefer to use the top row of hooks. Much of this is down to personal preference.What type of curtain hooks will I need for pencil pleat curtains?These curtains are usually put up using small plastic or metal gather hooks. You will need as many hooks as you have curtain rings, evenly spaced along the curtain for an even, tidy look. Some curtain tracks may come with too many sliding hooks; in which case you can leave the unused hooks between the last two curtain hooks towards the end of your track. Heavy, long curtains will require more curtain hooks to ensure that the curtains open and close easily, and are best put up using metal gather hooks rather than plastic ones.
What types of pencil pleat curtains can I buy at Spotlight?You will find a range of pencil pleat curtains at Spotlight, including plain, patterned, striped and floral, as well as several styles of curtains for childrens bedrooms. Check individual listings for the available colours, widths, and drops that are available. You will notice that some pencil pleat curtains in the range are marked as blockout or blackout curtains, which means they are treated to give them light filtering properties. These curtains can also help you to be more energy efficient. Drawing the curtains on hot days and cold nights will keep your rooms cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.Are pencil pleat curtains the only style available at Spotlight?No, you can choose from many different styles of curtain at Spotlight, this includes eyelet curtains, tab top curtains, pinch pleat curtains, rod pocket curtains, and pencil pleat curtains. It means you can find the perfect look and fixing method for your style and situation.
In addition to curtains, find curtain tracks, poles, accessories and more at Spotlight for all your window dressing needs. 1 - 11 of 11 ads for "wilson curtains" within Curtains & BlindsGreat range of Contemporary and Classic curtains in a variety of textures and colours to suit every room in the house. Our Ready made Pinch Pleat and Pencil pleat Curtains consist of a pair of curtains that will cover the sizes that are shown. Pencil Pleat is an adjustable heading style. Pinch Pleat is not so make sure to allow for crossovers, returns and creepage where required. Our Eyelet Curtains will come as a either a single Curtain at the flat curtains width before it is gathered. When available in 'Pairs' sizes shown are the width of rod they will cover. Please feel free to contact us if this is not clear. 1 - 14 of 14 ads for "spotlight blockout curtains" within Curtains & BlindsYour success will be determined by how well you can overcome hardship.The Goddess Meenakshi and Her Temple at Madurai[1]
How can we possibly measure the strength of this Woman/who created all things, moveable, immoveable, /and who is immanent Early in the morning, from my seat in our tour bus, I saw the edge of the first huge tower (gopuram) of the great Meenakshi temple[2] and realized that one of my long-time ambitions was about to be satisfied: I was soon going to walk through a functioning goddess temple! I was also hoping that I would get a sense, from the coming experience, of what it might have been like to walk through the great temple precinct of Inanna (Ishtar) at Uruk (Warka) in southern Mesopotamia (Iraq). same night I planned to be back in the temple attending the ritual enactedit brought the goddess’s consort from his shrine to spend the night with her in her shrine. I was finally in Madurai, one of the oldest cities in South India, and home of one of the world’sI was overwhelmed with expectation and, very soon, awe. As we made our way through the busy streets to the gate,[3]
it was clear that, like many of the temples of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean, the Madurai temple was a huge sanctuary with high walls. main gates, one for each direction, and a very high and ornate tower surmountedI rightly assumed that the actual shrines would be deep within. We entered by the East Gate. A long, high-ceilinged hall greeted us — it was full of stalls selling ritual materials and religious objects, including various-sized figurines of Meenakshi that reminded me of the thousands of ancient female statuettes that archaeologists have unearthed all over the Eastern Mediterranean. As in so many ancient sanctuaries, a sacred pool or tank for ablutionsThe Golden Lily pool was in a courtyard near the goddess’s shrine (Harman 1989: As we walked through the halls, goddesses were everywhere, and most bore signs of ritual activity. We came across a ritual in progress, the throwing of butter at the sacred couple, Sundareshvara (“Beautiful Lord”) (Harman
1989: 22) and Meenakshi (“Fish-eyed One”), to cool them After wandering through the enormous temple precinct for some hours and seeing the main shrines of both the goddess and the god[4] — not being Hindus, we could not enter — we left, but some of us planned to return for the regular evening ritual. Returning after 9 pm, we joined the crowd waiting in front of Meenakshi’s shrine for the ceremony to begin. The procession bringing the god to the goddess’s rooms for the night began at his shrine and continued through the temple to the spot where we were assembled. Musicians played drums and horns and priests chanted. enclosed in his palanquin waited outside the shrine, worshipers showed their respect by walking seven times round him. carried the god’s palanquin through the entrance, with the Hindus among us following to continue the ritual inside. For us outside, the ritual ended as a lone temple musician-priest played an old and eerily
The rite was deeply moving, despite its being performedIt was obvious that, at Madurai, the goddess was infinitely more celebrated than her consort, though he had been identified with a great Hindu god, Shiva. The “Sacred Marriage” of Meenakshi to Shiva (see box) brought the powerful local goddess, now identified with Shiva’s consort Parvati, into the mainstream of Hindu religion, but it did not change the worship patterns of the ordinary people of Madurai and elsewhere. Meenakshi to be the more important deity and worship her first when they come to the temple (Harman 1989: 64-65). If worshipers need Shiva’s help, they ask Meenakshi to intercede with him on their behalf (Harman The continuing importance of the goddess suggests to me that, originally, Meenakshi ruled alone or with a very subordinate consort, as Inanna/Ishtar seems to have done in ancient Mesopotamia. Perhaps Meenakshi began as a village goddess
who not only protected her village, but performed other miraculous deeds. Eventually a city developed round her shrine, which slowly was enlarged. It became the focal point of the city’s life, as were the precincts of ancient Near Eastern city deities and as the Madurai temple still isIndeed it is one of the few major Hindu temples devoted primarily to a goddess and a pre-eminent pilgrimage site. That wonderful visit to Meenakshi’s temple happened four years ago. Thinking back now, I realize that the worship of the goddess as primary, with her consort as secondary, must be something like what happened in ancient Mesopotamian goddess temples. At Madurai, though the deities were a female/male pair, it was Meenakshi who got the most attention, especiallyHer consort’s images were less decorated, and he came to her room at night, not vice versa. Large numbers of womenMeenakshi, “the Lady /with the eyes of a beautiful fish” (Harman 1989: 172),