Black and Natural Silk Velvet Ikat Fabric – Chain Scrolls

A two-colour bakhmal: black pile with long scrolls built from small natural-beige links, like a chain laid in curves. With only two colours the pattern depends entirely on the tying, and the links are crisp enough to read from across a room.

Product details

• Product type: handwoven silk velvet ikat (bakhmal), sold by the metre
• Origin: Margilan, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan
• Weaving technique: warp ikat on a second, supplementary silk warp that forms the pile; tie-dyed before weaving, pile raised over rods and cut by hand
• Composition: silk pile on a cotton ground (recorded as 60% silk, 40% cotton)
• Width: 40 cm (16 in)
• Pattern repeat: about 60 cm
• Main colours: black ground; natural beige
• Design / motif: chain-link scrolls in a running lattice
• Sold by: the metre — one unit is 1 m (1.09 yd), cut in one continuous length
• Condition: new
• Care: dry-clean; to refresh, steam from the reverse; never iron the face of the pile; store rolled, not folded

Suitable uses

A jacket or waistcoat front, cushions where they will be leaned on rather than sat on, a bolster, a framed panel. More cloths of this kind are under Silk Velvet Ikats.

Handmade note

Woven on a wooden loom with two warps — a cotton ground and a silk pile warp tied and dyed before weaving — so expect what the hand leaves: small shifts in the motif where the warp moved, slight changes in pile height, and a pile that looks lighter or darker depending on which way you view it. Colours differ slightly between dyelots, so order the full length you need at once.

Availability

This cloth is out of stock. Ikat is woven in small runs, so a design is not always on the shelf — but this one can be woven again. If you would like it, tell us through the contact page and we will let you know when it can be woven and how long it will take. A new dyelot may differ slightly in colour from the photograph.