Burgundy & Cream Silk Ikat Fabric – Large Scrolls

Burgundy scrolls drawn large on cream, with plenty of ground left between them. An open pattern like this is the easiest to cut into garments, because you can place the motif rather than work around it.

Product details

• Composition: silk and cotton blend — exact ratio being confirmed with the workshop
• Width: 40 cm
• Sold by: the metre — one unit is one metre, cut to order in a continuous length
• Weaving technique: warp ikat — the warp threads are tie-dyed to the pattern before weaving, then woven on a handloom
• Main colours: deep burgundy on cream
• Motif: large open scrolls with hooked ends
• Care: Hand wash at 30 °C or dry-clean; dry in the shade; iron on the reverse while slightly damp
• Origin: handwoven in Margilan, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan

What it suits

Dressmaking, cushion fronts, a narrow curtain, or a lining. More cloths of this kind.

How this cloth is made

The pattern is tied and dyed into the warp threads before a single row is woven — abrbandi, the cloud-binding, is the local name for it. The weaver works to a design that exists only as knots on a stretched warp, and every extra colour means another round of tying and dyeing. That is why the edges feather rather than cut sharp, and why no two metres are quite identical. Woven on a handloom in Margilan, in the Fergana Valley.

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.