Your First Turban, how many meters should it be?

Satnam Jio,

It is an honor to serve someone their first Turban.   You might be a practicing Sikh,  starting your journey as a Sikh, or someone who is getting one for another purpose, in either case you will be wearing a sacred piece of cloth that reminds you of being a Sikh.

How long should your Turban be?

let me start with my stats:  I am small to medium build and I am 5 feet 9.5 inches in height *yeah! I can use every little bit of height advantage I can get* and I wear a 4 meter and a 5 meter Turban.

If you are new to Sikhi and are growing your Kesh *hair*, then a 2-3 meter Turban will be a good start.  As your hair gets longer and you can make a Jhoorah *hair bun* then you can consider a Turban of longer length. The width of the Turban is ~1 meter, which is fixed for Adult Turban (the width is 1/2 for Kids Turbans)

We usually sell Turbans in the length of 3-7 meters, where 2 and 8+ meters are rarely.

The color is of course something you connect with.  I have to tell you that I have a Turban of almost every color imaginable,  I love to coordinate Turban colors.   My favorite will always remain White.

Material choices,  we sell F74 (lightest), Full Voile (medium) and Rubia (thickest).  The lightest material has less thread count.   The material gets softer the longer you wear it.  Some of the favorite Turbans are those that I have had for years, they are soft and wrinkle free for some reason.

Please feel free to contact me at gosikh a-t gmail with any questions.

We cannot help everyone, but we can definitely try

I started GoSikh.com a few years ago to do Seva.  My task was to serve the Sikh community.  This pet project has since grown and we serve many communities including the Islamic community here and abroad.

I have also been lucky in the sense that I have always had another way of making enough money to pay my bills.  so, in essence any profit made from GoSikh was money we could invest back in the business or donate.

We love to donate,  that is something I got from my maternal side of the family.   I know, I know, donating is more for our satisfaction than for the end cause.  There is some truth to that but we love donating in either case.

At any given time, there are sooooo many calamities and so many causes that are worthy of our donation.  I have a hard time balancing it all out.   On one hand there are natural or man made disasters that need immediate attention and then there is world hunger.  There are homeless and hungry people right in our own backyard.

I have recently been following water.org and what they do.  They are providing clean water wells or technologies to rural parts of the world.

It is sad that we cannot help everyone that needs help but we can try our best.

we are blessed to be given a chance to make a difference in the Sikh community around the world and it is a privilege to take the money we make and donate it to a worthy cause.

We will do our best to find a cause every month that we will focus on and donate a % of our monthly sales to that cause.   However, we will continue to support past causes as we go forward.   I think I need help with just managing all of this effort.  *hint: community manager*

I have to also say thanks to all those who have allowed us to serve them, without you we would not be here today.  I have to assure you that for every $20 we have to spend on our business, I have to think more than twice, is it worth it?.  Can this money go to a worthy cause that can make an immediate impact?

Thank you.

We look forward to growing and in essence giving more back.

Price of Turban will go up.

I recently got a new shipment from India and I was shocked to see the bill.  My cost,  buying in bulk, was up 30%.  I immediately called my family who continue to help me with GoSikh.

The news is that the cost of Cotton, raw material, has gone up 100% in the last 6 months., 3Q 2010 to 1Q 2011.   Since all the Turbans are 100% cotton, the cost of Turban is also up.

Speculation, weather,  increase demand for cotton all have lead to higher prices.

The new inventory will be phased in as the old inventory gets depleted.   So, we will phase in the new prices over X amount of time at increments of 10 cents.

I actually like the price of Turbans today $2.90 a meter but we cannot sustain ourselves at these prices going forward.

Sadly, everything is becoming expensive and we have no control.

I have heard from family and they have said that the new shipment I am expecting in the next few months will be more expensive than the last.  So, the prices of cotton continue to go up.

I simply hate the price fluctuations but this is the way the world works.

 

Satnam Jio!

Welcome to the GoSikh blog.  I have a lot going on under my Turban, a lot to share and a lot to do.  I will share my thoughtswith you via this blog and hopefully you can get an insight into what it takes to run GoSikh.com.

As usual comments are welcome, you can leave your comments here or you can email me directly.