A small section on purpose: five dresses in silk-cotton ikat — adras at half silk, shoyi at 70 per cent — each made to order in Tashkent in your size, $205 to $299. A knee-length dress takes 7–10 metres of 40 cm cloth, which is why the price sits where it does and why each dress uses a single dyelot from hem to neck. Sizes S–XL on the listings, or send measurements. Made in 18–25 days, then tracked airmail.
If you would rather choose the cloth first, any silk ikat by the metre can be made into one of these shapes; ask.
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The cloth is 40 cm wide and the repeat runs along it, so a dress is built from vertical panels — usually six to eight — with the pattern matched at the seams or deliberately offset. The uzbekalive guide to metrage for a dress puts it at 8–10 metres for a slim knee-length dress plus spare for matching, and that is our experience too. It is also why a silk ikat dress moves the way it does: every panel hangs on the straight grain.
Send bust, waist, hip, length and sleeve; the dress is cut to them. Write to us with the listing and the measurements and we will confirm the metres and the date.
Hand wash at 30 °C with a mild detergent, no wringing, dry flat in the shade, iron on the reverse; or dry-clean, which is safer for a finished garment. Rules in how to wash ikat fabric.
No; it is silk-cotton adras or shoyi, 50–70 per cent silk in the patterned warp with cotton in the weft, which is how Uzbek dress silk has always been woven. The listing states the blend.
Seven to ten metres of 40 cm-wide cloth for a knee-length dress, all from one dyelot, which is why an ikat dress costs $205–299 at Alesouk.
Yes. Sizes S–XL are on the listing, and any dress can be cut to your measurements at no extra charge within the standard range.
18–25 days to make in Tashkent, then tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.
By hand at 30 °C, no wringing, dried flat; or dry-clean.
