Hot Pink & Charcoal Silk Ikat Fabric – Eyed Almonds
$16.00
60% silk, 40% cotton · 50 cm wide · sold by the metre · handwoven warp ikat from Margilan · hot pink with charcoal, grey and cream.
The eyed almond — the motif meant to turn away bad luck — in charcoal and cream on hot pink. The eye at the centre of each form has to be tied to the millimetre or it drifts off centre down the bolt.
Product details
- Composition: 60% silk, 40% cotton
- Width: 50 cm
- Sold by: the metre — one unit is one metre, cut to order in a continuous length
- Weaving technique: warp ikat — the warp threads are tie-dyed to the pattern before weaving, then woven on a handloom
- Main colours: hot pink with charcoal, grey and cream
- Motif: eyed almonds scattered across the ground
- Care: Hand wash at 30 °C or dry-clean; dry in the shade; iron on the reverse while slightly damp
- Origin: handwoven in Margilan, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan
What it suits
Dressmaking, cushion fronts, curtains, or a lining that will surprise whoever opens the coat. More cloths of this kind.
How this cloth is made
The pattern is tied and dyed into the warp threads before a single row is woven — abrbandi, the cloud-binding, is the local name for it. The weaver works to a design that exists only as knots on a stretched warp, and every extra colour means another round of tying and dyeing. That is why the edges feather rather than cut sharp, and why no two metres are quite identical. Woven on a handloom in Margilan, in the Fergana Valley.
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.
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