White Silk Ikat Midi Dress with Orange and Teal Panel
$205.00
Silk-cotton ikat midi dress, cream with an orange and teal panel · S–XXL or cut to measure
2 in stock
A cream pleated midi with one bold ikat panel running down the centre front, orange and teal medallions on white. Setting a single panel of figured cloth against a plain pleated ground is a designer’s decision rather than a traditional one, and it is why this dress reads as modern rather than as costume.
Product details
- Garment: a sleeveless midi dress with a pleated skirt
- Cloth: handwoven silk-cotton ikat with a plain pleated ground
- Sizes: S to XXL, or cut to your own measurements
- Main colours: cream white, orange, teal
- Motif: a single bold medallion panel down the centre front
- Sleeveless, pleated from the waist
- Care: dry-clean only — the pleating will not survive washing.
- 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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