ANTIQUE PRE-1900 UZBEK SILK+ COTTON IKAT PANEL

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ANTIQUE PRE-1900 UZBEK SILK+ COTTON IKAT PANEL Offered is uzbek silk Ikat Panel. Silk ornamented abrbandi-knit warp, cotton weft, corded interlacing, hand spinning. It is from Fergana valley, approximately 1890s-1910s. Fergana valley is truely motherland of all traditional usbek ikat fabrics or "abr". T were produced silk of the top quality. This fabric was used only for clothes of elite. Manufacture of such fabric was limited. This antique piece is still in good condition. Ikat is one of the most interesting part of Central Asian Applied Arts and the most prestigious and beautiful fabric. It is also known in Persian as 'abr' for 'cloud', in Turkic as 'ipekshahi', in Arabic as 'asab', in Hindi as 'patola'. Like a cloud Uzbek Ikats display a great variety of patterns, may be composed of several combinations of materials and may be woven in both simple and complex structures. The single features shared by all of these extraordinary textiles is the complex dyeing process which is undertaken before the individual elements are arranged upon the loom. All ikat cloths have either their warps, their wefts, or, in rare cases, both warps and wefts dyed only in selective areas and only before those threads have been placed before the loom. The process of preventing the dyes from penetrating the entire warp or weft is known as 'reserving' read more

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