The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp or both. |
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Not far away was a market offering everything under the sun, from dried fish to hand-woven textiles, especially ikat. |
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Front and rear it is piled high with coloured ikat woven blankets, tied on with criss-crossed blue plastic string. |
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The Indonesian touch comes in material similar to ikat and natural colors like brown, red, beige and green. |
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Perhaps the types of folk art best known in the West are the textiles, especially batik and ikat. |
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Short kurtis, the in-thing now, are available in ikat and batik prints. |
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It is known for beautiful ikat fabrics, excessive and extravagant funerals, and the annual Pasola, a ritual war game on horseback. |
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In an attempt to give the sarees a fresh and contemporary appeal, weavers have tried out a host of variations with Madhubani, ikat, kalamkari and Shanthineketan motifs. |
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The duchess changed into a porcelain blue silk dress with hand painted ikat design, hand embroidered with gold thread work for the religious blessing. |
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It is an 8-color, heat-set polypropelene in old world, ikat and distressed designs in a trendy color palette and six sizes. |
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The technique of tying groups of unwoven warp or weft threads together to resist the dye and make patterns is usually known by the Indonesian term, ikat. |
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In the finest ikat, however, birds and animals, spirits and houses, and, in Cambodia, a vestigial iconography of royal Buddhism may be formalized into extremely beautiful banded compositions. |
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It includes the famous ikat method, in which the thread is dyed selectively before weaving by binding fibres around groups of threads so that they will not take up colour when the thread is dipped in the dyebath. |
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Naturally, ikat designs tend to be static and more or less rectilinear. |
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Although the patterns are quite standard, they ripple and vary according to the characteristics of this technique, more commonly known as ikat, an Indonesian term. |
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Fuji is a stylized floral and leaf design on a textured ground, and Jaipur is a series of wave motifs banded in ikat design stripes. |
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Textured decorative pillows and sheet sets in heathered neutrals and bold ikat prints complement the entire assortment. |
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Coarser ikat from the Lesser Sundas was traded for sago from the Kei Islands, Aru and Seram. |
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The saris are well priced and the range of textiles includes chanderi, chikankari, south Indian Weaves, kantha, bandhani, ikat, tussar prints and laharia among others. |
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African tribal influences such as the Ikat print with vibrant colors will be seen on shoes, purses and apparel. |
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Finally, a big plump sofa with an ethnic print such as this Ikat grand split sofa softens the industrial edge but still looks at home. |
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Her range of textiles and Sarees in silk and cotton have been specially woven by traditional Jamdani and Ikat weavers. |
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It's one of my favourite looks from her Antipodean wardrobe and it was a hit with the Copy Kates too as the PS292 Ikat Batik Catalina frock sold out in only eight minutes. |
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