Sky Blue Adras Ikat Dress

Sky blue and yellow almonds at a generous scale on white adras — the figures large enough that the dress carries only three or four of them across the front. Blue and yellow together mean two separate dye rounds; neither colour can be laid over the other.

Product details

• Garment: a sleeveless dress, knee length
• Cloth: handwoven adras — silk warp over cotton weft
• Sizes: S to XXL, or cut to your own measurements
• Main colours: sky blue, yellow, white
• Motif: large paired almonds in blue and yellow
• Sleeveless, straight cut
• Care: dry-clean, or hand wash cool without wringing.
• Cloth handwoven in Margilan; garment cut and sewn in Tashkent

How to wear it

A patterned dress needs nothing else patterned near it — plain shoes, plain bag, and the cloth does the rest. Ikat was ceremonial dress in Uzbekistan for centuries and it still reads as an occasion here, though a cotton one wears perfectly well on an ordinary day. See the other silk ikat dresses and cotton ikat dresses, or the cloth itself as ikat fabric by the metre.

How this ikat is made

The pattern is not printed on the cloth and it is not embroidered into it. Every thread of the warp is tied off in bundles and dyed, one colour at a time, before a single row is woven — a process called abrbandi, cloud-binding, for the soft feathered edge it leaves on every motif. The cloth is handwoven in Margilan in the Fergana Valley. The garment is then cut and sewn in our atelier in Tashkent.

Made to order in our Tashkent atelier and dispatched within 18–25 days, by Uzbekiston Pochtasi tracked airmail. Sizes S to XXL; if none of those is right, send your measurements through the contact page and the piece is cut to them at no extra cost.