Red & Yellow Cotton Ikat Fabric – Paisley Almonds

Red and yellow almonds with hooked tips — the shape the West calls paisley and Uzbek weavers call bodom — feathered across a white ground. 40 cm wide.

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: 100% cotton
• Width: 40 cm (16 in)
• Main colours: white ground; red; golden yellow
• Design / motif: paisley-shaped almonds with hooked tips
• 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 or gentle machine wash at 30 °C, dry in the shade, iron on the reverse while slightly damp

Suitable uses

Cushions, curtains, quilt tops, scarves and dresses, table runners, lampshades. More cloths of this kind are under Cotton 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. Colours differ slightly between dyelots, so order the full length you need at once. Washing and pressing are covered in how to wash ikat fabric.

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.