Olive Green & White Silk Ikat Fabric – Feathered Motifs

A soft sage-olive ground with white motifs scattered across it, the white feathering into the green at every edge so the cloth reads as a mottled green from a distance. It is one of the few silk ikats that works as a near-plain, and it takes patterned cushions beside it without a fight. Sixty per cent silk, forty cotton, 40 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: 60% silk, 40% cotton
• Width: 40 cm (16 in)
• Main colours: olive green ground; white
• Design / motif: white feathered motifs on green
• 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

Shirt-dresses and kimono jackets, curtains and blinds, cushion fronts, a bedhead panel. Pairs with the sage chevron (IF0657-1). 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.