Yellow, Blue & Red Silk Ikat Fabric – Pomegranates, 60 cm

Pomegranates — the old Central Asian symbol of plenty — in blue and red on a lemon-yellow ground, woven on the 60 cm loom so the motifs are generous and a curtain needs fewer seams. Half silk, half cotton.

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: 50% silk, 50% cotton
• Width: 60 cm (24 in)
• Main colours: lemon yellow ground; blue; red; black
• Design / motif: pomegranate motifs with feathered edges
• 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

Curtain panels seamed at the repeat, cushion fronts with one pomegranate each, a bedhead, a kaftan. Pairs with the brown-and-yellow (IF0320) in the same width. 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 Uzbekiston Pochtasi tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.