Brown & Periwinkle Cotton Ikat Fabric – Leopard Spots, 64 cm

Brown spots with periwinkle-blue centres scattered across an apricot-cream ground, each rim broken into fine teeth by the tie-dyed warp — the Uzbek leopard, woven 64 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: 100% cotton
• Width: 64 cm (25 in)
• Main colours: apricot cream ground; dark brown; periwinkle blue
• Design / motif: leopard spots with periwinkle centres
• 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 or gentle machine wash at 30 °C, dry in the shade, iron on the reverse while slightly damp

Suitable uses

Cushions, a stool or bench, curtains, bags and jackets, quilt tops. Behaves like a neutral animal print rather than a bright pattern. More cloths of this kind are under Wide Ikats 65 cm.

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.