Multicolour Silk Ikat Fabric – Flame Stripe
$16.00
60% silk, 40% cotton · 50 cm wide · sold by the metre · handwoven warp ikat from Margilan · crimson, golden yellow, magenta, turquoise and green.
Five colours banded down the length in flames — the full palette the Margilan looms work in, and the kind of cloth that was once cut for a festival coat. Each band is a separate tying of the same warp.
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: crimson, golden yellow, magenta, turquoise and green
- Motif: vertical flame stripe, the colours banded down the length
- 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
A statement curtain, a coat or kaftan, cushion fronts, or a table runner where the stripe can run the full length. 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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