Black and White Ikat Short Dress
$134.00
Cotton ikat short dress in black and white · S–XXL or cut to measure
4 in stock
Black on white at full contrast, in large flame figures. Black against white is the hardest combination in ikat — there is nowhere for a mistake to hide, and any drift in the tying shows as a grey smear rather than a soft edge. Fitted through the bodice, flared from the waist.
Product details
- Garment: a long-sleeved short dress with a flared skirt
- 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
- Long sleeves, fitted bodice, flared skirt
- 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
A patterned dress needs nothing else patterned near it — plain shoes, plain bag, and the cloth does the rest. Ikat was ceremonial dress in Uzbekistan for centuries and it still reads as an occasion here, though a cotton one wears perfectly well on an ordinary day. See the other silk ikat dresses and cotton ikat dresses, 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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