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Rakhi: Binding Sister and Brother
At Hinduism’s festival of siblings, every brother deserves flowers at the wrist.
Sacred Rakhi bracelet, with fern and tuberose, handmade in Kolkata, India
Photo: Sandy Ao
While this day occasions many sorts of gifts and blessings, the most traditional – and loveliest, is the tying of a sacred Rakhi string. Customarily, a sister attaches the bracelet around her brother’s right wrist and prays for his safety and long life.
(This is like the idea of giving a Friendship Bracelet, on Friendship Day, first Sunday in August. ana)
“Rakhis are ideally made of silk with gold and silver threads,
beautifully crafted embroidered sequins, and studded with semi precious
stones,” says one source. From her walks about Kolkata, Sandy discloses
a far finer “ideal.”
Making bracelets for the upcoming festival of RakhiPhoto: Sandy Ao
Photographs of bracelets decorated with marble beads, yarn, straw flowers, and tiny plastic figurines.
This
man is making some fresh flowers Rakhi, too! I hope his idea of using
fresh flowers for Rakhi will inspire others to follow.”
He
appears to be stitching circles edged with tuberose blossoms and
decorating them with mylar cutouts, strands of calotropis, ferns, and
sequins, turning them into fresh-faux passion flowers. What emblems for
the crazy power of sibling relationship!
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