Periwinkle Blue, Tan & White Silk Ikat Fabric – Palmette Columns

Periwinkle — a blue with a little violet in it — drawn as columns of feathered palmettes with small tan hearts, on a white ground that shows generously between them. It is a soft, orderly cloth, closer to a printed toile in mood than to the loud ikats, and it was sold as upholstery; a half-silk adras is better on a window or a body than a seat. Fifty per cent silk, fifty cotton, 42 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: 50% silk, 50% cotton
• Width: 42 cm (17 in)
• Main colours: white ground; periwinkle blue; tan
• Design / motif: palmette columns with tan hearts
• 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

Curtains and blinds, a summer dress or blouse, a bedhead panel, cushion fronts on white or tan. For a seat cover choose our cotton ikat. 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.