Red, Blue & Yellow Silk Ikat Fabric – Traditional Motif, 50 cm

The traditional Fergana multicolour — red, blue, yellow and green in dense columns with white outlines — on the 50 cm loom and in the glossy seventy per cent silk blend, so a robe needs fewer seams and shines more. 50 cm wide.

Product details

• Product type: handwoven ikat fabric, sold by the metre
• Origin: Margilan, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan
• Weaving technique: warp ikat — the threads are tie-dyed before weaving; handloom, no power looms
• Composition: 70% silk, 30% cotton
• Width: 50 cm (20 in)
• Main colours: red; blue; yellow; green; white
• Design / motif: dense traditional column motif, multicolour
• Sold by: the metre — one unit is 1 m (1.09 yd), cut in one continuous length from 1 m up
• Condition: new, uncut from the bolt
• Care: hand wash at 30 °C with a mild detergent, no wringing, dry in the shade, iron on the reverse; or dry-clean

Suitable uses

Chapans, kaftans and straight-cut dresses, a lined jacket, cushion fronts against plain velvet. Pairs with the 40 cm traditional (IF0444). More cloths of this kind are under Silk Ikats.

Handmade note

Handwoven on a wooden loom, so expect what the loom leaves: motif edges that feather where the warp shifted, a hairline of colour variation along the length, and a selvedge that is not perfectly straight. The pattern is dyed into the thread, not printed on it, and shows on both faces — the test described in our handwoven versus printed ikat guide. Colours differ slightly between dyelots, so order the full length you need at once.

Cut to order and dispatched from Bukhara within 24 hours by Uzbekiston Pochtasi tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.