Orange, Teal & Charcoal Silk Ikat Fabric – Ceremonial Medallions
$16.00
60% silk, 40% cotton · 50 cm wide · sold by the metre · handwoven warp ikat from Margilan · burnt orange, teal blue and charcoal on cream.
Big ceremonial forms in orange and teal across cream — four colours, and no plain ground left anywhere. Cloth drawn this large was made for coats rather than for cutting into small pieces.
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: burnt orange, teal blue and charcoal on cream
- Motif: bold ceremonial medallions with hooked arms
- 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 coat or kaftan, long curtains, or a headboard where the motif can run whole. 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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