Lilac Ikat Cotton Midi Dress with Embroidered Trim
$71.00
Cotton ikat midi dress in lilac with hand-embroidered trim · S–XXL or cut to measure
1 in stock
Lilac and periwinkle on cream, finished at the neckline and hem with a hand-embroidered band in pink and green. The embroidery is added after the garment is cut, by hand, which is why no two of these dresses carry quite the same trim.
Product details
- Garment: a sleeveless midi dress
- Cloth: handwoven cotton ikat
- Sizes: S to XXL, or cut to your own measurements
- Main colours: lilac, periwinkle, cream, with pink and green trim
- Motif: vertical figures in lilac and periwinkle
- Hand-embroidered trim at the neckline and hem
- Care: hand wash cool and dry flat in the shade — the embroidered trim will not take a machine.
- 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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