KATTI- PART 2 Dear friends,
This part 2 of the posting. Letme continue with some more items. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 8-5-2013. Reposted on 13-2-2021 after editing and updating R. Gopala Krishnan. 8. Thickness of clothes. Women wear Sari. But thethickness of sari cloth is not sufficient for men’s wear. I have read in myhigh school class that once when Akbar’s daughter came down from upstairs , He warned her- Not make onestep more, wear cloths and come. She said: I am wearing cloths. Yes on those days a sari which could pass through finger ringcould be weaved in India. Women cannot wear thick clothblouses. Now most of us wear pants andshirt while going out. The cloth of pant thickness is different from shirtthickness. But with coat the same thickness of pant cloth is used along withshirt. The pyjamas are having thicknessof shirt cloth only. So there is a psychological feeling sometimes aboutclothing. Though we wear single dhoti, its thickness is more than a double dhoti. One cannot wear cutting half a double dhoti. The bath towel we use require certainthickness. “Earezhathorthu” is used by most whether in colour or white for bath roomuse. The slightly loose structure is best to wipe out water. Forgetting to taketowel many times I have used the dhoti for wiping out water after bath in theriver. Even 50% water cannot be wiped using dhoti instead of a towel. AKerchief cannot have the thickness of a towel. Some use Turkey towel, becauseof its special weaving though thick it absorbs water on wiping. 9. Gloves. While working with power lines,the technician wears gloves for insulation in hand. More the thickness, more safety in work.But with more thickness holding tools is difficult. Hence medium thickness isused. But for application of hair dyesuch a glove is not good .During the time of testing inner parts of body bytouching, the doctors wear gloves of lesser thickness. Very hygienic thingloves are used in operation theatre. 10. Knife and thickness. For cutting tree branches orremoving the husk of a coconut, we require knife called Vettukatthi (Sachet). Forordinary kitchen work we use knife of lesser thickness to cut vegetables. Theonly exception is cutting of jackfruit. 11. Katti sarkara and pathiyan sarkara. Now a day very rare in market,once we were having semi liquid jagerry more in the shops. Now we are havingonly solid jagerry. To break it to pieces we require a round granite piece ofthickness which could be hold in palm. It is called kozhavi. Even forbreaking cloves we use kozhavi. Once one of my cousin brother inlaw went to purchase a wet grinder during a New Year day. They said both onelitre and 2 litres cost the same. Happily he got two litre. On reaching the home, his wifeasked- who would lift this heavy kozhavi? He too tried. But New Year sale- Sold items will not be EXCHANGEDOR TAKEN BACK- To end- After a year somehow managing he got a newone litre on exchange price. The weight of kuzhavi was so much. 12. Ulkatti. While talking of coconut wemention of ulkatti. What is meant is the thickness of the white portion, we grateand use in dishes or dry and use to extract oil. Some coconuts will have about1.5 cm ulkatti while some others about 0.6 cm. We get more grated coconut whenthere is ulkatti. As the coconut ripens the ulkatti too increase. Pollachi coconuts and Eathamozhicoconuts have more ulkatti. 13. Katti tthati (Wood having more weight) The weight per cubic feet of woodvaries with different woods. Teak wood, rose wood, Anjili etc have more weightand used for house construction. The wood having lesser weight like rubber,erukku etc are used for packing case, match box etc. Whatever the new inventions, still most prefermatch sticks in wood. Additional note- A piece of gold about 2 cubic inches may appearsmall to see, but will give weight to lift. The same size of silver will weigheven not 1/3rd of gold. It is told auspicious to keep a small pieceof silver in rectangular form in the home weighing about 50-100 grams or so. Itshould have thickness. 14. Katti manasu. The person who has hard heart istold to have katti manasu. The other wayif a person is light hearted- He is told having manasu with least thickness(manassinu Kattiyilla thaangan).Shocking information should not be told tothem. 15. Pattika Thangandae (Pattika has to bear the weight) While tiling the house, we haveto ensure the kazhukkol and pattika are of good wood of proper strength. The old pattika used withbraided coconut leaves for roofing is not sufficient. So if one has less money toreplace the old pattika, tiles of less thickness only can be procured. Otherwiseas the weight of tiles increase- dhum. Ullathum pochhuta nallakkanna… 16. Thickness of paper. Day to day we use paper. Butordinary paper cannot be used for Xerox or inkjet printing. If the thickness isless many times impression may come to other side of paper. Ink also would spread.To avoid these the financial institutions use special papers for important use. For registration the stamp paperis of special quality and thickness. For decoration thin colour papers areused. When we purchase diary we make apoint about the quality of paper and thickness. For ordinary paper works we usenormal paper. Once before Xerox was common, weused to have thin Manifolding paper for ordinary multiple copies using type writer. Forcyclostyle special brown colour paper was used with thickness since manycyclostyling used both sides. I received my selection/posting as junior engineer in cyclostyled form. 17. Thickness of glass used for bulbs and glassware in domestic use. Bulb has to radiate the lightproduced due to heating inside of it in the filament. So a thickness used to with stand heat andradiating light is selected. Glass warein today domestic use, are tough and thick in LPG stove, glass top dining tableetc. Tea glass will have special quality glass with sufficient thickness. Orelse when hot tea is poured the glass may break. The same with thermoflask. Firstwarm water is poured in flask, it is removed and then hot tea/ coffee etc arepoured. Many times flask break on account of this. 18. The contractor desires the opposite of what we desire. We desire thick frame and doorwith thickness for the front teak wood door. But the contractor simply mentionshe will provide teak wood door and try to reduce its thickness to maximumpossible. Similarly the granite top of kitchen table. After providing RCC hewill provide a thin granite top of maximum 1 cm thickness and give a very goodside finishing. We may wonder, such thick granite is provided. Kneeling down one would come to knowthe RCC showing teeth. If good thickness is required we have to payadditional charges. 19. Thayirsatham. If thayirsatham has to be good,quality curd has to be added and rice will absorb it and after a few minutesthe curd rice will be 70% solid. If it is more liquid it is common to say- Curdadded is without thickness. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/623247947.895243.1613191817874%40mail.yahoo.com.
