It is known for beautiful ikat fabrics, excessive and extravagant funerals, and the annual Pasola, a ritual war game on horseback. |
It is an 8-color, heat-set polypropelene in old world, ikat and distressed designs in a trendy color palette and six sizes. |
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. |
Perhaps the types of folk art best known in the West are the textiles, especially batik and ikat. |
The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp or both. |
Front and rear it is piled high with coloured ikat woven blankets, tied on with criss-crossed blue plastic string. |