Dear Pankaj: no.... just denser... there are 240 count bed sheets and then upto 600 count... quite dense... only practical if you do machine wash otherwise too heavy for the maid to lift and wring out the water....ha ha.. Kota sari would be much less number of threads, wollen suiting would be much higher numbers... so it varies based on purpose... Usha di..
======== On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thats interesting and informative. > So you mean more the number of threads in 1cm better is the quality!! > Pankaj > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Ushadi micromini > <microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Dr. Kumar: > > I can tell you how: one puts the magnifier on the fabric to be tested > > and counts warps and wefts criss- crossing each other within a given > > length/sides of a square, say one centimeter or an inch whatever is > > the standard for the country or century or industry.... as in linen: > > it is centimeter, cotton fabrics, again centimeters, jute fabrics it > > used to be inches.... and I think still is.... > > > > and such magnifying lenses come quite handy for quick inspection of > > fabrics, and be non -destructive... one could count threads even in a > > shop on the entire roll .... > > > > how do I know this? i had taken some economic botany classes and some > > esoteric knowledge lodged in my memory....ha ha... > > usha di > > > > ======= > > > > On May 9, 7:12 pm, Dr Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Nice discussion going on here. > >> Thanks a lot for sharing this beautiful pic and innovative effort for > >> taking the measurements. > >> Gurcharan sir, Just incase you wish to try, there is a shop on chandni > >> chowk before the gurudrawa on the road that goes inside opposite to > >> red fort. They keep varieties of scientific pocket lenses which can > >> come handy for taking such pictures. > >> But what I am seeing here is something for the first time. Dear Mr. > >> Alok thanks a lot for sharing the link. > >> By the way, any idea, how they test linen with it? > >> Pankaj > >> > >> On May 8, 6:17 am, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Usha di > >> > It was simple. I have a flat bed scanner, simple cano-scan lite which > I > >> > bought for just Rs. 2500/-, which I use frequently for scanning > documents. I > >> > knew it can save as pdf document, but did not know how I would send so > many > >> > single pages. I thought of giving a try, and when I clicked option of > pdf > >> > document, the default choice was multiple-page document. I scanned a > page, > >> > pressed next, till I had scanned all the pages. Pressing finish > created a > >> > mult-ipage document which I uploaded. I have similarly made pdf of all > my > >> > papers. > >> > >> > -- > >> > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > >> > Retired Associate Professor > >> > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > >> > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > >> > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > >> > >> > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:58 AM, ushadi Micromini > >> > <microminipho...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > >> > > Dear Alok: good ...good... > >> > > we are then back to being comfortable and easy... > >> > > we will / do have fun .... here... don't we? > >> > > love it... > >> > > Usha di. > >> > >> > > --------- > >> > >> > > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Alok Mahendroo < > alokisabe...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > >> > >> No offense taken at all.. Usha di, please...!! > >> > >> Such comments (as Gurcharan ji said) keep the atmosphere lighter.. > and I > >> > >> have no grudges > >> > >> in that respect... One jests with the people who would understand > the > >> > >> humour and I too am writing in the lighter vein.... > >> > >> > >> Thank you all... > >> > >> regards > >> > >> Alok > >> > >> > >> On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 22:32 +0530, ushadi Micromini wrote: > >> > >> > Dear Alok: sorry... jesting at anybody is not my intention.... I > was > >> > >> > just pointing it out that measuring device you used was very > >> > >> > appropriate and handy... with or without its magnifying > capability.... > >> > >> > >> > so whether one has a macro of nikon's making or not.... one still > >> > >> > needs to provide the taxonomists with proper id related data, and > in > >> > >> > photography that includes size.... > >> > >> > >> > please do not take it as a jest at anybody's expense... > >> > >> > if anything I tend to be self-deprecating.... > >> > >> > >> > most humbly yours, Usha di > >> > >> > >> > PS MAKESHIFT DEVICES : often are used by people who are more > than > >> > >> > most innovative.... and in Medicine..its called > off-list-use...often > >> > >> > awarding the innovator a second patent or an award... so please > donot > >> > >> > ever think you are deprived... > >> > >> > you have an innovative brain, if you came up with this "second" > use of > >> > >> > the linen testor.... or if you adopted it for taxonomic > >> > >> > photography....accept my good wishes....usha di.... > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Himalayan Village Education Trust > >> > >> Village Khudgot, > >> > >> P.O. Dalhousie > >> > >> District Chamba > >> > >> H.P. 176304, India > >> > >>www.hive.interconnection.org > >> > >>www.hivetrust.wordpress.com > >> > >>www.forwildlife.wordpress.com > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India >
