Azure Blue & Black Silk Ikat Fabric – Chevron

The same saturated azure blue as our polka-dot cloth, this time under black chevrons that zigzag across the width with the ragged edge only warp-dyeing gives. Chevron is the oldest ikat layout there is — it needs no drawing, only a shift of the tied bundles between rows — and in two colours it reads as modern as anything printed. Sixty per cent silk for the gloss, forty cotton for the hand; 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)
• Pattern repeat: about 225 cm
• Main colours: azure blue ground; black
• Design / motif: feathered chevron zigzag
• 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

Trousers and skirts cut on the straight, a kaftan, cushion fronts, a roman blind seamed at the repeat. Mix with the polka dot (IF0642) in the same blue. 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 tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.