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Historic Central Asian ikat was woven in narrow strips — the nineteenth-century robes in the Smithsonian's collection are pieced from them, and the widths recorded for adras run from about 32 to 55 cm. A 50 cm cloth sits at the top of that range: still a hand loom, still one weaver, but a seat pad, a lampshade, a cushion up to 50 cm square or a dress bodice comes out of a single width, and a 140 cm curtain drop takes three strips instead of four. If a project needs more than that, go to the 65 cm section.
Seventeen silk-cotton blends — half-and-half adras, 60/40 and a few 70/30 shoyi — with the drape for dresses and kaftans; ten cottons, firmer and washable, for curtains and chairs; one velvet. Each listing states fibre, width and price, and the parent Ikat Fabrics page explains the difference between the cloths. Care is the same as for the narrow cloths: cotton and adras hand-washed at 30 °C, velvet dry-cleaned — details in how to wash ikat fabric.
Roughly a fifth less than you would at 40 cm. A knee-length dress that takes 7–10 metres at 40 cm takes 6–8 at 50; a pair of 45 cm cushions, one metre; a dining-chair seat, half a metre each. Buy all the metres for one project in one order — a dyelot is a single warp and a re-dye never matches exactly. Tell us the project and we will confirm the metres before you pay.
The cloths in this Alesouk section are mostly 50 cm (19–20 in), with a few at 45 cm and one at 60 cm; the width is the first line on every product page. Standard Uzbek ikat is 40 cm, and the 65 cm cloths have their own section.
Yes. It is woven on a wider wooden frame loom in Abdulla's workshop in Margilan, Uzbekistan, by hand, from a warp tie-dyed before weaving; nothing in this section is printed or power-loomed.
Chair seats, cushions up to 50 cm square, lampshades and dress bodices cut in one piece, and curtains with one seam fewer. Silk-cotton cloths suit dresses and kaftans; the cotton ones suit curtains and upholstery.
At Alesouk, silk-cotton adras and shoyi at 50 cm cost $14.50–17 a metre, cotton $7–10, and the one silk velvet $39. One unit is one metre (1.09 yards), cut to order.
About 6–8 metres for a knee-length dress, compared with 7–10 metres of 40 cm cloth. Buy the whole amount in one order because each dyelot is a single warp.
Yes, worldwide by tracked airmail from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, within 24 hours of the order: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20. Duties, where charged, are the buyer's.
