Dusty Rose Ikat Robe

Dusty rose, mauve and pale blue in a palette far softer than most Uzbek ikat, which runs to strong colour. The repeating triangle is the tumor, the amulet shape sewn onto children’s clothes and hung in doorways across Central Asia, worked here into the warp rather than applied to the surface.

Product details

• Garment: a long open robe
• Cloth: handwoven silk-cotton ikat
• Size: one size, cut generously and worn open — custom lengths and sleeve lengths on request
• Main colours: dusty rose, mauve, pale blue, cream
• Motif: triangular amulet figures — the Uzbek tumor — repeated the length of the cloth
• Open front, no fastening
• Care: dry-clean, or hand wash cool and dry flat in the shade.
• Cloth handwoven in Margilan; garment cut and sewn in Tashkent

How to wear it

Worn open over a plain base — a shift, a shirt and jeans, anything unpatterned. It descends from the chapan, the long coat Uzbeks have worn open over everything else for centuries, cut lighter here and unlined. Nothing else in the outfit needs to do any work. See the robes and chapans, 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.

Availability

This piece is out of stock. The cloth is handwoven in small runs, so it is not always on the shelf — but the design can be made again. Tell us through the contact page and we will say what is possible and how long it would take.