Black and White Ikat Kimono
$152.00
Cotton ikat kimono robe in black and white · S–XXL or cut to measure
2 in stock
Black on white at full contrast, in flames large enough that two or three fill the width of the robe. Black against white is the least forgiving combination in ikat: there is no third colour to soften the join, so any drift in the tying reads as a grey smear rather than a feathered edge. Wide-sleeved and open at the front.
Product details
- Garment: a long open robe cut in the kimono manner, with wide sleeves
- Cloth: handwoven cotton ikat
- Sizes: S to XXL, or cut to your own measurements
- Main colours: black, white
- Motif: large flame figures in black on white
- Wide sleeves, open front, worn loose or belted
- Care: gentle machine wash at 30 °C, or hand wash cool. Dry in the shade.
- Cloth handwoven in Margilan; garment cut and sewn in Tashkent
How to wear it
Worn open over a plain base — black or white and nothing else patterned. It descends from the chapan, the long coat Uzbeks have worn open over everything else for centuries, cut lighter here and unlined. See the robes and chapans, or the cloth itself as ikat fabric by the metre.
How this ikat is made
The pattern is not printed on the cloth and it is not embroidered into it. Every thread of the warp is tied off in bundles and dyed, one colour at a time, before a single row is woven — a process called abrbandi, cloud-binding, for the soft feathered edge it leaves on every motif. The cloth is handwoven in Margilan in the Fergana Valley. The garment is then cut and sewn in our atelier in Tashkent.
Made to order in our Tashkent atelier and dispatched within 18–25 days, by Uzbekiston Pochtasi tracked airmail. Sizes S to XXL; if none of those is right, send your measurements through the contact page and the piece is cut to them at no extra cost.
| Weight | 1 kg |
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